Church of St Katherine
CHURCH OF ST KATHERINE, SACOMBE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045912
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Katherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST KATHERINE, SACOMBE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045912
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Katherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST KATHERINE, SACOMBE GREEN
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 KATHERINE, SACOMBE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sacombe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33602 19360
Details
SACOMBE SACOMBE GREEN
TL 31 NW
(Southwest side)
Sacombe
4/102 Church of
24.11.66 St. Katherine
- II*
Parish church. C14. Plaque in chancel records 'This church was restored
by Abel Smith Esq. of Woodhall Park, Patron of the Living, the works
y
being continued from the 24th May 1855 to the 10th of Feb 1856 when it
was opened again for divine service. The roof, tower, vestry and west
wall. were rebuilt, the organ loft formed, and new oak seats made, and
the outside of the church entirely refaced with flint.' Knapped flint
facing with some flint rubble in plinth. Dressings of stone re-used from
demolished church at Thundridge. Tiled roofs. Nave with narrower shorter
chancel. Tall S tower over entrance. Vestry to N of chancel. Chancel: 3
light E window, 2 centred arched head, restored curvilinear tracery,
mask stopped hood mould, trefoil opening in stone coped gable parapet
with masks on kneelers, ridge cross. 2 stage buttresses to returns.
Chancel to S has 2 restored 2 light windows with 2 centred heads,
curvilinear tracery, linked hood moulds. Continuous plinth. Sprocket
eaves. Vestry has a separate roof. 3 lancets in a square surround to N
with small buttresses. Quatrefoils in gables with a 3 light pointed
arched window with intersecting tracery to E, steps to 2 centred arched
door to W. Kneelers to coped gable parapets. Nave E end has similar
parapet over 2 stage buttresses. Towards E end of nave to N and S are 2
light windows as in chancel. Nave W end has a tall 3 light window,
buttresses at ends with parapet as to E. Tall square 4 stage S tower is
unbuttressed with small stone quoins. To S: pointed arched opening with
a triple chamfer, hood mould, squared flint voussoirs, above a 3 light
window formerly to organ loft and a clock imposed on a slit opening.
String course to belfry with tall louvred lancets with trefoiled heads
to all sides. Embattled parapet. Tower to E has 2 lights in a square
surround on lower stage, 3rd stage trefoiled slit. To W a semi-octagonal
stair turret on 3 stages with entrance, slit openings, stone quoining.
Inner entrance to S is a double chamfered 2 centred arch. Interior: C14
2 centred chancel arch, double chamfered, the outer order dying into
wave moulded responds with C19 foliate stops. C19 roofs, scissor braced
in nave, braced collar beams in chancel. Over S entrance is former organ
loft with a 4 centred moulded arch and a corbelled balcony with a Gothic
panelled frontal. Chancel S wall has restored C14 piscina and double
sedilia with cusped ogee arches with crocketed finials, hexafoil bowl in
piscina. C19 Gothic fittings. Fixed to pulpit is C17 iron hour glass
holder. Chancel N wall: large marble epitaph to T Rolt, d.1758, by
M. Rysbrack. Cornice ramped up to centre over a cherub, flags, trophies
and arms above, scrolled jambs with festoons, 2 cherubs at base flanking
a cartouche with arms. Marble epitaph to Elizabeth Caswall, d.1815, by
Flaxman. Inscription with consoles at base of tapering black marble slab
with low relief allegorical female figures, one standing with upraised
arm, the other kneeling and weeping, pedimental head with ante fixae and
acroterion. Stone epitaph to J. Meriton, d.1669, with richly carved
surround, scrolled jambs with festoons, cherub at base, scrolled head
with skull. In one sedile are reset brass inscriptions to J and
E. Dodyngton, d.1537 and 1544. In vestry W wall a reset marble epitaph
to Sir T. Rolt, d.1710, 'Agent of Persia and President of India'. In N
wall an C18 cherub from base of another monument. Late C19 Resurrection
in E window. (East Herts Archaeological Society Transactions, vol,1,
pt.1, 1899,p.85: RCHM 1910: VCH 1912: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TL3360219360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, (1899), 85
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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