Church of Unknown Dedication
CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024086
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024086
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tidmington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 26147 38557
Details
TIDMINGTON SP23NE 7/173 Church of unknown dedication 13/10/66 (Formerly listed as Parish Church (dedication unknown))
GV II*
Church, Dates from c.1200, with early C13 tower and chancel rebuilt early C16, Restored 1874. Squared, coursed limestone with ashlar, slate roofs, and stone slate roof to tower. Chancel, nave with south porch and west tower. Chancel of 2 bays with plinth and coped gable on kneelers, and moulded cornice. Early C16. East square headed window of 3 scalloped lights with mouchettes above. Moulded surround, with hood mould and label stops. To south two early C16 square headed windows, one of 2 cusped lights, the other, towards east, of 2 lights with scalloped heads. Hood moulds and label stops. Further early C16 square headed window to north of 2 scalloped lights, with hood mould and label stops. Nave of 2 bays with coped gables and offset buttresses. To south a C19 stone gabled porch with coped gable and buttress. Pointed arch doorway with moulded surround, and Early-English style shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. Hood mould with carved head label stops. c.1200 doorway with cushion capitals supporting a tympanum with central carved motif and moulded surround. C19 plank door. To either side of porch, and towards east of north side, a C19 two-light window in the Early-English style with quatrefoil-pierced plate and hood mould. Towards west of north side a single round-headed chamfered light. Restored north round-headed doorway with moulded surround and plank door. Early C13 west tower of 3 stages with flat buttresses. To north a stone lean-to vestry, to west a plain double chamfered light. To second stage north and south a plain chamfered light. To third stage north, south and west a 2-light window with central shaft with moulded base and capital. Unpierced tympanum, and hood mould. Single chamfered light to east. C13 corbel table of carved human and beasts heads. Moulded stage bands. Pyramidal roof. Interior: splayed east window. C12 piscina in south wall with scalloped bowl. C19 coloured tile chancel floors. Chamfered chancel archway, the arch itself double chamfered. Triple chamfered tower arch, the innermost order supported on C13 corbels and carved head of a man and woman. C19 pointed doorway into vestry to north. C13 round font, with carved seated figure of a saint to one side. In north-west of nave are C15 restored benches, with panel tracery. The front bench end has poppyhead. Eleven C19 and one C20 wall tablets. C19 glass in east window, and south-east window of nave. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.433; V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.3, p,450-451).
Listing NGR: SP2614738557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 450-1
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 433
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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