Church of St Mary, Causeway Bridge, and Gates
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAUSEWAY BRIDGE, AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058142
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary, Causeway Bridge, and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAUSEWAY BRIDGE, AND GATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058142
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary, Causeway Bridge, and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAUSEWAY BRIDGE, AND GATES
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 MARY, CAUSEWAY BRIDGE, AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lullington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77328 50991, ST 77355 50989
Details
ST75SE LULLINGTON CP ORCHARDLEA PARK
4/197 Church of St. Mary, causeway bridge, and gates 11.3.68
GV I
Church. C13. Random rubble, stone slate roofs with coped verges, gabled bellcote to west end. Buttressed nave and chancel, buttressed early C19 north chapel, south porch; fabric rebuilt by Sir George Gilbert Scott, for Rev. W. A. Duckworth, supervised by J. O. Scott, 1878. Predominantly Decorated style, simple exterior, 2 and 3-light windows with a circle-in-bar tracery. Most remarkable exterior feature is priests door in a hollow moulded stone surround with a pointed-5-cusped head, a pointed trefoil set above. Interior on tile floors; north chapel entered through a low cusped archway formerly giving onto a tomb recess; chancel with much decoration, pointed trefoiled piscina to south side, trefoiled aumbry to north side with a seated figure of Christ, stone figures of a king and queen flank the altar, small corbel figures in the form of a monk and a nun on either side to hold the former lentern veil. Much stained glass of the mid C15 and early C16; east window with a tonsured figure flanked by angels; north and south chancel windows with 8 figures of the apostles and texts; window over priests door with a representation of the Holy Trinity; south window to nave with a winged ox and a winged lion representing St. Mark and St. Luke; west window with angels and figures, St. Michael in the tracery lights. Jacobean pulpit, early C14 circular font with leaf decoration and small seated figures. The church is on an island formed by the creation of the upper ornamental lake to Orchardlea Park. It is reached by a rubble bridge with a single semi-circular arch, wrought iron handrails, C19 wrought iron railed gate to each end. (SANHS, Vol 57i, 1911; Vol 39i, pages 28-29, 1893, Vol 86, pages 79-85, 1940).
Listing NGR: ST7735550991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1893)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1911)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 86, (1940), 79-85
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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