Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1098909
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1098909
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE
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 BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 64258 41493
Details
ASHPERTON CP CHURCH LANE SO 64 SW
5/16 Church of St Bartholomew
6.3.67
- II*
Parish church. Early C14, incorporating mid-C13 chancel arch of earlier building, late C18 west tower, and C19 south porch. Church restored 1840. Sandstone rubble, part rendered, slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch and north and south transepts, chancel. West tower: three stages with clasping buttresses, upper string course and crenellated parapet; simple Y- tracery to vents of bell stage; south doorway in second stage with external stair. Nave: five bays; part restored single lights with ogee-heads flank gabled porch; 2-light window to gable end of south transept with trefoil- headed lights, similar window to north transept. Chancel: three bays; single ogee-headed light to west and 2-light window to east with trefoil-headed lights (similar to windows of north and south transepts); east end, 3-light traceried window with ovoid panel in render above. Interior: ceiled roof with mid-C16 moulded tie-beams; mid-C13 chancel arch of two orders with moulded captials and water-holding bases to responds of inner order, ogee-headed piscina in chancel and similar recesses in north side of east wall of nave and in south wall of south transept. Plain restored hemispherical font on cylindrical base to north of chancel arch, possibly C13 (formerly sited in churchyard), further mid-C19 font towards rear of nave. Monuments: Thomas Lord memorial dated 1652 on east wall of nave, wall tablet with trefoiled head; Wilson memorial, late C17 wall monument with short columns supporting open segmental pediment, inscription panel with folded ribbon detail to central oval panel, inscription illegible. Church is near moated site of former castle belonging to William de Grandison who obtained licence to crenellate in 1292. The earlier church on this site was possibly built as a Chapel of Ease close to the house. (RCHM, Vol II, p 2/3; Watkins, Duncomb's History of the County of Hereford, Hundred of Radlow, 1902, p 10 and 12).
Listing NGR: SO6425841493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 2-3
Watkins, J, Duncombs Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford Hundred of Radlow, (1902), 10 and 12
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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