CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056994
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056994
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lopen
National Grid Reference:: ST 42714 14498

Details

LOPEN CP CHURCH STREET (South side) ST4214 8/54 Church of All Saints 4.2.58

GV II*

Anglican parish church. C12 or C13 origins. Mostly C14 and C15; north transept added 1833, remainder substantially rebuilt between 1874 and 1886. Ham stone, mostly cut and squared but with some coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs with stone slate base courses between coped gables. Three-cell plan of 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave and north transept, with south porch and western bell turret. Chancel has chamfered plinth, angled corner buttresses; 2-light east window of c1300, without label; 2 lancets on south side and one on north, with slight projection in north-west corner for rood stair having small rectangular light. Nave has offset corner buttresses, one early C19 3-light 'Y' traceried window each side, under curlstop labels; south side also has small pointed-segmental-arched lancet to west of porch; west wall has a mid-C19 2-light traceried window without label, with short buttress under, above which is a simple C19 bell turret with 2 small bells. South porch plain, no buttress, simple chamfered outer arch with early C19 timber gate topped with spikes, very simple pointed inner arch; stone bench seats, and in east wall the headstone of a C12 window with incised radial lines. North transept has 3-light 'Y'-traceried windows to match nave, one in each wall with pointed-arched doorway under curl-stop label in north gable, and on west side a former gallery doorway set tight under eaves, with flight of 10 stone steps having wrought iron handrail. Interior has work of all periods; chancel has segmental-arched ribbed vaulted ceiling of C17 or C18; two blanked-off statue niches with plain 4-centre-arched heads in east wall; doorway to former rood loft stair in north wall, and plain chamfered almost triangular chancel arch. Nave has segmental barrel-vault ceiling without ribs, and walls unplastered below cill level; late C18/early C19 gallery at west end, carrying organ installed after 1945. North transept has full-width quasi-4-centred arch, and barrel vault ceiling without ribs of same profile; the gallery removed in l958. Fittings include C18 communion rail and two C17 chancel chairs; plain octagonal font on octagonal base, possibly C13, and a chancel screen of 1957 by A.F. Erridge. Memorials include an incised and painted lias stone slab to George Sampson, died 1724, set behind pulpit, and 2 early C19 memorials to members of the Templeman family. Chancel windows of 1868 and 1897, the latter of good quality. (VCH, Vol III, l974; Hopper S, Lopen and its Church, Petherton Press, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST4271414498

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Legacy System number:: 264136
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hopper, S, Lopen and its Church, (1975)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.