Parish Church of St Julian
Parish Church of St Julian, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1115330
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Julian
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Julian, High Street
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- Date:
- 2007-02-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/16186/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1115330
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Julian
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Julian, High Street
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 Julian, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellow
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 74187 58396
Details
ST 7458
12/7
WELLOW C.P.
HIGH STREET (North side)
Parish Church of St Julian
1.2.56
GV
I
Parish Church of St. Julian. Founded prior to C12; it is suggested but without evidence that the present church was built c.1372 by Sir Thomas Hungerford; late C14/C15; restored with new chancel, 1845 by B. Ferrey; present chancel 1889-90 by Bodley and Garner; recent restoration completed 1952 by Caröe, the younger. West tower. Nave with clerestory (1430), north and south aisles; south porch; chancel, north (Hungerford) Chapel. Ashlar; partly rubble to porch and east part of south aisle; Cotswold stone slate roofs with slate roof to chancel. Embattled parapets.
West tower: three stages, set back buttresses with off-sets which turn into diagonal pinnacles in upper stages; embattled parapet with pinnacles; square stair turret on south-east corner, terminates as octagon; three-light window to bell chamber with cusped heads; similar but larger window with transom to west; west door has hollow chamfer and ogee moulded surround with four-centred arch lintel and drip mould, arms carved in spandrels, heads as label stops (1975) are Edward Henderson, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Major Horton-Fawkes, patron of the living.
South aisle: two three-light windows to west of porch with four-centre arch lintels, drip moulds with diamond label stops; to east of porch four-light square headed window with cusped heads, drip mould and carved label stops; angle buttress with pinnacle to west, low buttress to east with scratch dial.
North aisle: three- and four-light square headed windows. Rood stair turret: c.1430-50; projects in re-entrant angle between south aisle and chancel; polygonal east face; embattled parapet with pinnacle.
Chancel: in matching Perpendicular style; three-light windows under four-centred arch lintels; decorative finial on apex of east gable; five-light east window. South porch: rendered to front; diagonal buttresses with pinnacles; ashlar plain parapet which is ramped up at front to form concave sided gable, central pinnacle and niche below containing modern (?C19) figure of St. Julian; embattled parapets to sides; heavily moulded door surround.
Interior south porch. Fine C14 south door with six-lights of blank panels below and reticulated cusped tracery above; heavily moulded, restored door surround; two carved niches above; carved angel corbels to porch roof.
Nave: four bays with typical Perpendicular moulding of four hollows and four engaged columns; panelled and decorated Perpendicular roof (restored) with corbels, carved as angels; many Perpendicular benches with poppy heads and simple panelled tracery on ends, (Some on fronts or backs).
Tower. Arch of similar Perpendicular moulding; tierceron vault with central bell rope opening. Rood. Finely carved and decorated Perpendicular rood screen of c.1430; rood loft and rood itself are by Caröe, the younger, 1952. Squints to either side of rood screen, with cusped heads. Chancel. c.1889-90 with fittings of that date; eight carved heads, early C14, of kings and bishops set below first south window; four further heads, two to either side of east window; restored piscina. North (Hungerford) Chapel: c.1443; moulded, carved and painted screen; panelled and decorated roof; probably Easter Sepulchre in north wall, panels of quatrefoils below, four-centred arch head with cusped panels, inscription (about building of chapel) reads "For the love of Jesu and Mary's sake Pray for them that this lete make"; on east, wall paintings of c.1500 of Christ and 12 Apostles; carved and painted niche head in north-east corner, tomb chest to Dorothy Popham, 1614, heavily mannered Jacobean Ionic columns and entablature, strapwork and arms above; other tablets to the Hungerfords, Ursula (1645), Susanna (1652), Giles (1638). North aisle: carved effigy of priest, c.1400 in four centred arch headed recess; Font at west end, possibly c.1250 on Romanesque base, eight lobed bowl on circular foot with eight attached shafts; painted ogee shaped cover, 1623. South aisle. Monument to John Hodson, 1733 with oredicule Warrior Chapel at east end - elaborate cartouche to Thomas Scudamore, 1718; piscina.
Listing NGR: ST7418358400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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