Church of St Mary the Virgin
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Huxham, EX5 4EJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1098307
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Huxham, EX5 4EJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1098307
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Huxham, EX5 4EJ
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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 the Virgin, Huxham, EX5 4EJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Huxham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94650 97808
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/04/2018
SX 99 NW
4/142
HUXHAM
Church of St Mary the Virgin
(Formerly listed as Church of St John the Baptist, previously listed as Church of St Mary)
GV
II*
Parish church. The original C14 church was entirely rebuilt, the chancel in 1864 by John Hayward, the nave in 1871 by Benjamin Ferrey. Thorverton stone (volcanic trap). A two-cell building: nave with west bellcote and south porch and chancel. Decorated style.
Exterior: South porch set well to west lit by two lancets with deeply splayed window arches and double-chamfered arch with nook shafts. Nave with two windows to south, three to north, all two-light with tracery and hood moulds and pretty floral terminals. West bellcote twice weathered and timber bell housing (perhaps later) roof; nave roof eaves-line marked on west front by string course with trefoil relief at apex; Two-light west window with unusual central boss to head-tracery. Chancel, one two-light window to north and south, flush; three-light east window. Much of the stonework was badly decayed within a short time of the 1871 rebuilding and it is difficult to determine whether or not medieval stonework was anywhere re-used.
Interior: deep window arches; roofs with arch braces; plain chancel arch.
Font: Norman, bowl with spiral roll moulding waisted by cable moulding below, the rim decorated with roundels and nailheads set up on C19 base.
Glass: Medieval fragments in chancel north and south windows.
Piscina: Medieval trefoil-headed, in chancel south wall.
Screen: Three bays. Central entrance bay with large knotty leaves to spandrels; side bays, square-headed, with ogival reticulation above, linenfold panels below; presumably late C15 or early C16, although the tracery work seemed to Pevsner to 'look exceptionally early'. The left-hand tracery panel is a later copy of its companion.
References: Devon C19 Churches Project.
Listing NGR: SX9465097808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Avis, P D L, The Parish of Huxham A Short History, ()
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Aylesbeare, (1920)
Stabb, J, Notes on some Old Devon Churches, (1911), 101
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 184
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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