Church of St Gabriel
CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, B 4209
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098814
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, B 4209
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098814
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, B 4209
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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 GABRIEL, B 4209
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hanley Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81016 42770
Details
HANLEY CASTLE CP B 4209 (south side) SO 84 SW Hanley Swan 3/126 Church of St Gabriel 25.3.68 - II
Church. 1872 - 4 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Squared rock-faced stone with slate roof. Late C13 style. Comprises a nave with clerestorey, north and south aisles, north porch, north-east tower, and lower chancel. Tower of three stages with angle buttresses, broached to a stone spire with three rows of lucarnes. The bell openings are pointed with clustered shafts, of two lights with quatrefoil. The middle stage has an arcade of three blind pointed arches, with a lancet window within the middle arch. The north window is of two lancet lights under a pointed head: The aisles are of five bays and have windows of two lancet lights. The clerestorey windows are round and cinquefoiled. The north porch, in the western bay, is of timber with scalloped bargeboards. At the west end of the nave is a moulded pointed doorway, and two windows each of two lancet lights with trefoil under a pointed head. The chancel windows are of two lancet lights with cinquefoil. The east window is of five lights with tracery. Interior: four-bay arcades of pointed arches chamfered in two orders springing from octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Both arcades have a fifth, narrower, arch at the west end. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed: The nave roof has raised tie-beams, crown-posts, and soulaces to the collars. At tie-beam level there are secondary plates and ashlar pieces. The chancel is floored with encaustic tiles and has an alabaster reredos designed by Clayton and Bell, and made by Powell's. It is flanked by tiles decorated with floral patterns. On the north side an organ is set within an arch. The east window contains late C19 glass depicting Christ and the four Evangelists.
Listing NGR: SO8101642770
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153267
- 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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