Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108465
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108465
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
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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:
- Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Huish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69519 41112
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SX 64 SE
4/103
SOUTH HUISH
SOUTH HUISH VILLAGE
Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
26.1.67
II*
Ruined parish church. C13, C14 and C15, abandoned in 1866. Slatestone rubble walls.
Plan: nave and chancel are the oldest parts to which a C14 tower was added at the west end, and the north transept possibly at the same time. In the C15 a south aisle and porch were built. In 1866 the Vicar of West Alvington with its dependent chapels decided that the church was not worth restoration. All its fittings were sold, including the medieval screen which was taken to Bowringsleigh House in West Alvington (q.v.). The arcade to the south aisle was removed to Dodbrooke church in the early C20.
Exterior: the church is now roofless but the walls are largely intact although less so to the transept. The stonework of the west tower is much eroded, it has a blocked C15 four-centred arched west doorway with mutilated Perpendicular window above. On the north wall of the nave is a C13 lancet opening with the framework gone. The chancel has two similar windows, that on the south side opening into the aisle and still with its stone framework. Granite Perpendicular windows to south aisleend at east end of church. Single storey south porch with dressed rubble roundheaded doorway of South Hams type. Inner south doorway has four-centred chamfered stone head which blocks a former window opening in that wall. Internally the church has been completely stripped and has few features.
Source: Beatrix Cresswell - Churches in the Deanery of Woodleigh
Listing NGR: SX6951941112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Woodleigh, (1923)
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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