Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)
PARISH CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS (THE CHURCH OF THE HIGH SEAS), STEPNEY HIGH STREET, E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065065
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS (THE CHURCH OF THE HIGH SEAS), STEPNEY HIGH STREET, E1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065065
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS (THE CHURCH OF THE HIGH SEAS), STEPNEY HIGH STREET, E1
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS (THE CHURCH OF THE HIGH SEAS), STEPNEY HIGH STREET, E1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35976 81586
Details
TQ 3581 STEPNEY HIGH STREET, E1
(east side)
16/588 Parish Church of St Dunstan and All
Saints (The Church of the High Seas)
29/12/50 I
Parish church. Kentish ragstone, rubble and flint, with stone dressings and tiled roof An ancient foundation rebuilt C10; C13 chancel with seven-bay C15 nave and aisles, with battlemented parapets, two-light clerestorey windows and renewed three-light windows. C15 west tower, three stages with battlements, pinnacles and angle buttresses. Beacon tower on south side. North and south porches and hexagonal vestry room at north-cast corner added 1871-72 by Newman and Billing.
Interior: nave north and south aisles rebuilt cl500, when chancel arch-removed. Seven-bay arcades of two-centred arches on quatrefoil piers. C13 sedilia in chancel. Vestry room has open timber roof.
Alterations: extensively restored in 1849 by Benjamin Ferrey; in 1872 by Newman and Billing; by Cutts and Cutts in 1899 and again in 1901-2 following a fire, when the nave roof was rebuilt; in 1949 by C Wontner Smith, following war damage, when the flooring was renewed and the cast end reordered.
Fittings: Anglo-Saxon stone relief panel of the Crucifixion, early C11. Relief of the Annunciation, c1400, over north chancel door. Numerous funerary monuments, C16-C19, including recessed tomb chest to Sir Henry Colet, d.1510, in chancel; Dr John Berry, d1689, bust with in aedicule in north aisle; Benjamin Kenton, d.1800, by Westmacott showing relief of the Good Samaritan between Doric columns, in chancel. East window by Hugh Easton, 1949, depicting the Crucifixion above tableau of blitzed Stepney. Sailors' memorial window, also by Easton in north aisle. Organ by Father Willis, from St. Augustine's, Haggerston, installed in north-west aisle, 1971. Clock retains original working by Thwaites, 1804. Stone, reputedly from Carthage, set into south aisle wall with 1663 inscription.
Listing NGR: TQ3597681586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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