Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, A389
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052291
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, A389
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052291
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, A389
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, WESTHEATH AVENUE
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 LAWRENCE, A389
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, WESTHEATH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodmin
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 06055 66926
Details
BODMIN
SX0666 WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389) 629-1/3/109 (North side) 17/05/91 Church of St Lawrence
GV II
Anglican chapel. 1859-61. Coursed and dressed limestone with dry Delabole slate roofs. Apsidal chancel, 5-bay nave with south transept and aisle, porches and west bay. Early Pointed style, clearly influenced by the work of Ecclesiological architects such as White who worked in Cornwall. Gabled buttresses linked by sill course beneath paired and deeply-splayed lancets to chancel. Gabled E porch with hoodmould over pointed-arched plank door to south transept which has paired lancets to bellcote set over 2-light window with Geometrical tracery. Nave has small circular clerestory windows with trefoils and quatrefoils beneath eaves. S aisle has splayed lancets and porch with hoodmould over pointed-arched doorway. N elevation of nave has gabled and slightly projecting central bay with porch, flanked by paired lancets, and has vestry to east with pointed-arched doorway. Lower one-bay annexe to west has paired lancets to sides and group of 3 stepped lancets to west. INTERIOR: noted as having open timber roof, nave arcade and original fittings. Built for St Lawrence's Hospital at a cost of »1,515 and following its mid C19 expansion. (Kelly: Kelly's Directory of Cornwall: 1906-: 35).
Listing NGR: SX0605566926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368050
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly Directory in Cornwall, (1906), 35
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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