Church of St Wulstan
CHURCH OF ST WULSTAN, A 449
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098787
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wulstan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WULSTAN, A 449
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098787
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wulstan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WULSTAN, A 449
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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 WULSTAN, A 449
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Malvern
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 77088 40972
Details
LITTLE MALVERN CP A 449 SO 74 SE 2/157 Church of St Wulstan GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1862 by B Bucknall. Rubble with limestone dressings and slate roof. Comprising a nave and south transept and south baptistry. Windows have Geometrical tracery. At the west end is a rose window. The west doorway is pointed and moulded in three orders with angle shafts. Above is a gabled band. The carving is incomplete, with rough stone blocks intended for head stops, crockets and gargoyles. The north wall of the nave is of five bays separated by buttresses and has windows of two pointed lights with quatrefoils. The north wall of the transept is of three gabled bays, which have windows with three trefoiled lights with tracery. The south wall of the nave has one bay to the west of the hexagonal baptistry and five to the east. The baptistry has chamfered pointed windows. At the south end of the south transept is a turret. It has a gable facing east which has two windows each of two traceried lights at an upper level. The east wall of the nave is of brick, with a blocked chancel arch and a blocked arch to a crypt. The chancel has remained unbuilt. Interior: the windows have inner stone arches separated by slim shafts which carry the roof trusses, which have carved braces to high collars. At the west end is a gallery of pitch pine with organ. A three-bay arcade of pointed arches opens into the north transept which is vaulted. The blocked chancel arch is moulded and pointed. (BoE, p 215).
Listing NGR: SO7708840972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153298
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 215
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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