Parish Church of St Giles

PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, BURY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102834
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Giles
Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, BURY LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102834
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Giles
Statutory Address 1:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, BURY 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, BURY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Codicote
National Grid Reference:
TL 21852 18730

Details

TL 2118 CODICOTE BURY LANE (east side)

10/6 Parish Church of St Giles 27.5.68

- II*

Parish Church. C12 origin. Some C13 fragments. C15 W tower. Restored 1853. Flint rubble with stone dressings. Plain tile pitched roofs, the nave parapeted. 3-stage battlemented W tower, top 2 stages with C15 detail includinq 2-light belfry windows. Lead spike with wrouqht iron weathervane. Deeply recessed W door and 3-light window above. Nave has restored C12 lancet in N wall and some C15 stonework to square and 4-centre arch windows. Other fenestration is C14 style. S Porch C19. Interior has large C15 W tower arch with single attached shafts S nave arcade has columns on C13 octagonal bases. Restored C15 derestorey. Jacobean hexagonal pulpit with carved panelling. S door has iron scroll work, possibly C12. (RCHM 1910; Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL2185218730

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Legacy System number:
161953
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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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