Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057465
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057465
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH LANE
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 GEORGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicknoller
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 11075 39428
Details
ST13NW BICKNOLLER CP CHURCH LANE (South side
10/1 Church of St George
22.5.69
GV I
Parish Church, C15 and C16, perhaps incorporating some C12 work, restored 1871-2 by J D Sedding. Red sandstone random rubble, squared and coursed North aisle, C19 slate roofs, decorative ridge tiles, coped verges. 4-bay nave, chancel, South porch, West tower, 4-bay North aisle. Crenellated 3 stage tower, diagonal buttresses, string course with gargoyles at corners, 2-light bell opening, lancet second stage, 3-light West window, square crenellated stair turret North East lit on corner. Nave, crenellated quatrefoil pierced perlons, 4-light Tudor arch head to right of gabled 2-storey porch, crenellated returns with quatrefoil pierced perlons, string course with gargoyles, setback buttresses, lit on right return only, large head stone with eroded inscription on left return, C19 moulded opening, niche with statue abcve. C19 door. Chancel 4- and 3- light windows flanking priests door, large 5-light East window, lover portion blocked with inserted decorative panels, steeply chamfered plinth; on North wall of chancel and North aisle all 3-light, latter between set back buttresses. Crenellated pierced merlons, door at west end. Interior: rendered. Standard Perpendicular arcade and piers with foliage capitals, pointed tower arch in 3 orders with very large chamfer, rear wave moulded, lowest order possibly cut in. C19 open ribbed wagon roofs, C12 pillar piscina in chancel. Altar, stone slab steeply chamfered corners, perhaps the top of a chest tomb or maybe a pre-Reformation altar. 3-bay screen with double doors and fan vaulting, much restored, reputed to have cone from Huish Champflower 1726. Early C16 and early C20 bench ends. Painted and gilded wall tablet to John Sweeting of Thorncombe, died 1688, (Photographs in NMR; VCH, Somerset Vol 5, forthcoming; Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958.
Listing NGR: ST1107639428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265050
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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