Church of St Romwald
CHURCH OF ST ROMWALD, THE MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040670
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Romwald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ROMWALD, THE MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040670
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Romwald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ROMWALD, THE MAIN STREET
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 ST ROMWALD, THE MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Strixton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 90375 61663
Details
STRIXTON THE MAIN STREET SP96SW (North side) 8/286 Church of St. Romwald 28/05/54 (Formerly listed as Church of Romwold)
GV II
Church. C13 west wall, remainder rebuilt in 1873. Squared coursed limestone with ironstone dressings and plain-tiled roof with alternate courses of fishscale tiles. Nave, chancel, west turret and south porch. South elevation of chancel of 2-window range of double lancets. Square headed south door to left with low-side opening to left. Brick relieving arch is probably over site of medieval tomb. Simple corbled cornice. Gabled roof with ashlar parapets. East window is triple stepped lancet. Quatrefoil circle in gable above and 3 blank quatrefoils flanking above. North elevation of chancel is similar to south with low-side opening to right. South elevation of nave of 2-window range of double lancets. Cornice of chancel is repeated as a string course cutting the nave window heads. Gabled roof with ashlar parapets and base of finial. Central gabled porch has double-chamfered outer arch and double-chamfered and hollow inner arch with flanking shafts. North elevation of nave has double lancet to right and single lancetto left. Central north door. West elevation has C13 triple stepped and chamfered door opening with 2 orders of shafts. C13 sexfoil window above has wavy surround. C19 circular opening above. C13 slit to right of door has cusped head. Fragments of earlier projecting masonry to left and right of west door. C13 west turret is built into west gable. Bell-chamber opening to west under wood lintel. Small single light openings to east and west. Saddle back roof. Interior: piscina with dog-tooth decoration. Simple screen. C17 communion rail with turned balusters. C19 stained glass to west window. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.419).
Listing NGR: SP9037561663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 419
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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