Putley Parish Church
PUTLEY PARISH CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099008
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Putley Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- PUTLEY PARISH CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099008
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Putley Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUTLEY PARISH CHURCH
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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:
- PUTLEY PARISH CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Putley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 64607 37606
Details
PUTLEY CP PUTLEY SO 63 NW
4/163 Putley Parish Church
GV II*
Parish church. C12 origins, restored 1875-6 by Thomas Blashill. Sandstone rubble; nave and chancel have tiled roofs, bell turret shingles, and south porch stone slates. Two-bay nave with bell turret inset from west wall, two- bay chancel and south porch. West wall has battered base and pointed C19 window of two trefoil-headed lights beneath a quatrefoil. Blocked north doorway with elliptical head and beneath, fragments of roll mouldings; north window to east of door is C14 with semi-circular head containing blind trefoils; vestry of c1875 projects to north; a further trefoiled light to north side of chancel. East window: part of restoration, has three trefoiled lights with three cinquefoils above. South window of chancel is a restored trefoil-headed light with blind spandrels; blocked priest's door, possibly C14, with 2-centred head. C13 east window of south side of nave has pointed head containing two trefoiled lights under a quatrefoil; restored trefoiled window to west of C17 timber-framed porch restored in C20, C13 or C14 south doorway has 2-centred head. Bell turret has pyramidical roof with a lucarne to each slope. Interior: chancel has C19 open wagon roof, the nave possibly a C15 arch brace and collar roof, C19 reredos in Venetian mosaics and altar table with the Entombment; re- set piscina probably C13 has trefoiled head, octofoil drain and is supported on columnar detached shafts. Pulpit has two sides of early C17 re-used panelling with a deeply moulded frieze and gadrooning over Ionic pilasters which continues as a screen beneath the chancel arch (formerly made up the Putley Court Pew). Stained glass windows by Clayton & Bell except the west window which is by Heaton Butler and Baque. The extent of the 1870s restoration is indicated by a plan in the vestry showing the seating layout and the only medieval parts: the west and south walls of the nave. The drawing is inscribed: "The Incorporated Society for promoting the/ Enlargement Building and Repairing of Churchs/ and Chapels granted £20 towards reseating/ this church upon condition that all seats except 5 in the Putley Court Pew be set apart for the free use of the Inhabitants - Augustus Frederick Denhham, Rector John Riley ) Church Thos Lewis ) Wardens Re-opened May 5th 1876 Thomas Blashill ARIBA, Architect, 10 Old Jewry Chambers, London EC"
The parish church has no known dedication. (Information in the church; RCHM Vol II, p 156, BoE, p 274).
Listing NGR: SO6460837607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church Guide Putley Herefordshire, ()
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 156
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 274
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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