Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115380
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115380
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Dando
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63421 67010
Details
COMPTON DANDO QUEEN CHARLTON ST 66 NW 2/50 Church of St. Margaret 1.2.56 II* G.V. GV Anglican parish church. Late C12, altered C13 and C15; restored. Consists of nave and north porch, central tower, north transept, chancel and remains of south chapel. Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, ashlar to upper parts of tower; lead roof over nave, plain and fishscale tiles elsewhere. The central tower is C12, altered in the C15 and restored in the C19; 2 full stages are visible above the body of the church; 2-light round-headed windows set within a large round-headed opening and under a hoodmould, all with continuous roll mouldings; diagonal buttresses with off-sets; parapet with pierced arcading, pinnacles and gargoyles; 2-light Perpendicular style bell chamber windows with blank arcading and under dripmoulds with diamond stops; 2-light Perpendicular style with cusped ogee head, on lowest stage of south side of tower, infilling an earlier arch; polygonal stairtower projects at north-east. Nave has C19 Perpendicular style window and C19 projecting north porch. North transept with 3-light Perpendicular style window; buttresses with off-sets at sides. Chancel: 2-light C19 Perpendicular style north window; 3-light east with Geometrical style tracery; projection on south side. Interior. The tower arches are pointed and single stepped, those to the nave and chancel have half-columns with scalloped capitals; blocked doorway with 4-centred head above north arch. The south side of the Chancel has a 2 bay arcade to the now removed south chapel; early - mid C13 with octagonal central pier which has a capital enriched with stiff-leaf, animal head and a human head in a head-dress; west respond has minimal stiff-leaf enrichment; more complete east respond is enriched with a beast's and a human head bitten by beasts, double chamfered arches. Book rest on north wall is set on a carved and crowned female head. Font is C12, ashlar, a cylindrical stem, an octagonal bowl with a cushion base. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST6342167010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32468
- 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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