Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, COOK'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058528
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, COOK'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058528
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, COOK'S 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 BARTHOLOMEW, COOK'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranmore
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66823 43333
Details
CRANMORE CP C00K'S LANE (West side) ST64SE WEST CRANMORE 4/59 Church of St Bartholomew 2.6.61 GV I
Anglican parish church, C15, C16, early C19 work to nave, chancel rebuilt 1848. Ashlar and coursed and squared rubble, coped verges with finial, slate roofs. Perpendicular, chancel in an Early English style. Nave, chancel, north aisle, north vestry, south porch, west tower. Three-stage embattled tower, set-back buttresses connected across the angle; buttresses terminate in detached diagonally-placed pinnacles, corner pinnacles, string below parapet with gargoyles, embattled parapet; triple-bell-chamber windows, Somerset-type tracery, flanking and intermediate pinnacles, side windows blank, centre windows with stone grilles; single windows of similar style on ringing-chamber stage, stone grilles; polygonal stair-turret to north, crocketed niche to west face with figure, 2:2 light west window, uncusped tracery, label, carved heads as stops; west doorway with moulded 4-centred head frame, label, carved heads as stops, paired plank doors. Nave with cornice, 3 bays, 2-light "Perpendicular" windows. Small gabled porch, moulded 4-centred heat floor opening, plank door, elaborate hinges, Three bay north aisle, cornice, parapet, coping, 2-light square-headed windows, small diamond-paned leaded lights. Low C19 vestry. Buttressed chancel, lancet to south; 3-light Perpendicular east window. Scraped interior on tile and flagstone floors. Nave with plaster barrel-ceiling, cornice. C19 cusped roof chancel. Aisle with plaster ceiling. Stone fanvault under tower. Three bay north arcade, piers of 4-hollows section, one capital with demi-figure of an angel. Panelled tower arch. C19 chancel arch. Jacobean chair. C18 pulpit. Mid C19 altar rails, choir stalls, pews, font and organ; although part of the font may be recut earlier work. Many wall monuments, particularly to the Strode family, C18/C19; brass of 1617. Four painted canvas achievements under tower, Restored Jacobean bier. Pair of C18 gates in aisle. C18/19 candelabra. Four mid/late C19 stained glass windows, Early C19 bells (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, l958; Photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST6682643333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268259
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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