Church of St Ecgwin
Church of St Ecgwin, Church Honeybourne
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1081550
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ecgwin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Ecgwin, Church Honeybourne
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1081550
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ecgwin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Ecgwin, Church Honeybourne
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 Ecgwin, Church Honeybourne
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Honeybourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 11995 44051
Details
SP 14 SW
8/91
HONEYBOURNE CP,
CHURCH HONEYBOURNE
Church of St Ecgwin
30.07.59
GV
I
Parish church. Dedicated 1295, extended early C14 and C15, restored late C19. Coursed lias rubble with ashlar dressings and Cotswold stone roof. Nave and chancel 1295, south porch C15, west tower C14.
West tower of four stages with diagonal buttresses surmounted by a late C14 octagonal stone spire with crocketted corner pinnacles. Openings of spire are of of two ogee trefoiled lights under a triangular head.
Nave: aisle-less with clerestory, four bays with windows of two trefoiled lights to south clerestory (north blind), over two C19 windows of two cinquefoiled lights to right, to left of centre a window of three trefoiled lights. South porch in left-hand bay has a stone roof of three bays on stone arches; entry has a Tudor arch with pierced quatrefoils to spandrels and a square label, south door C14. There is a blocked north door.
Chancel: two bays each with a trefoiled lancet, priest's door in south wall. East window is of three trefoiled lights under a two-centred head.
INTERIOR: rere-arches to most of windows. C19 chancel arch. Chancel has a trefoil-headed piscina. Roofs: nave C15, of four bays of shallow pitch with moulded tie beams, wall posts on stone angled corbels. Chancel has a common-rafter roof with scissor braces.
Fittings: octagonal C15 font.
Listing NGR: SP1199244053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1906), 368-370
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 119
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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