Church of St Congar
CHURCH OF ST CONGAR, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059100
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Congar
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CONGAR, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059100
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Congar
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CONGAR, 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 CONGAR, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Badgworth
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 39584 52620
Details
ST35SE BADGWORTH CP CHURCH LANE (West side)
4/95 Church of St Congar
9.2.61
GV II
Parish church. C14 chancel; nave with south porch; north chapel of cl340 with west porch and door; further work of C16 including west tower. Squared rubble, slate roof, coped verges. Tall thin 4-stage tower with angle buttresses up first and second stages, corner pinnacles, pierced parapet; west door of 1709, restored 1909. Three-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, extensively rebuilt 1854, the former retaining large Perpendicular windows, the latter remodelled in a Decorated style; south door to nave remains C14 with quadrant mouldings, door with decorated tracery. North chapel with 2 light decorated-east window with a rere-arch, a similar west window blocked, below it a door opening with a cusped head, (screened by the organ at time of re-survey). Interior with C14 tower arch of 3 continuous quadrant mouldings double chamfered chancel arch of similar date. C14 piscina in a gabled niche; opposite the tomb of Jon De Hampton in a recess with an ogee headed archway; squint to north chapel incorporating a piscina; 2 bay arcade to north chapel; some C18 panelling. Jacobean pulpit on C16, stone base reused from an earlier pulpit, 4 figures in gabled niches. Font on 4 clustered shafts probably C13. All stained glass late C19 by George Kempe.5 C19 wall monuments; one of C18 in north chapel; hammered brass plaque in an Art Noveau style of 1901 to south nave wall. C16 benches, ends with plain thin poppey heads. Aid C19 organ. Head corbels for a parvise in porch. C18 chest. C19 roofs. (Pevsner, The Buildings of England, North soierset and Bristol,1958).
Listing NGR: ST3958452620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268751
- 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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