Parish Church of St Denys
PARISH CHURCH OF ST DENYS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114867
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Denys
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DENYS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114867
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Denys
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DENYS, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST DENYS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colmworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10884 58580
Details
TL 15NW COLMWORTH CHURCH END, CHURCH ROAD
5/9 Parish Church of St Denys 13.7.64 (formerly listed as Parish Church of Saint Dennis)
GV I
Parish church. Circa 1430, window tracery reworked C19. Chancel of cobblestones, coursed freestone rubble elsewhere, all with ashlar dressinqs. Chancel, N vestry, nave, S porch, W tower, all with embattled parapets. Chancel: depressed 2-centred arched 5-light E window, flanked by buttresses. One window to N wall, 2 to S wall, all pointed arched with 3-lights. N doorway has 4-centred head and label. Priest's door to S wall. N vestry: 2- light E window. 2 squints blocked by Dyer monument. Tall narrow chancel arch. Nave: 3 windows each side, similar to chancel ones. Rood loft staircase to NE with 3 doorways. Squint S of chancel arch. N doorway. Tower arch similar to chancel one. S porch: intended to be vaulted, has 2 springers. W tower: 4 stages, diagonal buttresses, octagonal spire with lucarnes. Cornice below parapet has shield to each side. W window similar to those elsewhere. Interior: C15 octagonal font with shields and flowers. Chancel has finely worked large alabaster figured monument, 1641, to Sir William Dyer and family. Purbeck slab with inscribed copper plate, 1389 to Alianora Braybrook in chancel S wall. Fraqments of C15 glass, including whole angel, to chancel N window. Other qlass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, London 1893. Roofs restored, but nave retains C15 foliate bosses, carved braces and figures, and angels in centre of each bay holding shields and emblems of the Passion.
Listing NGR: TL1088458580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36412
- 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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