Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, DURNFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117102
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, DURNFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117102
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, DURNFORD 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:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, DURNFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 46424 53757
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4653NW DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/65/773 (East side) 25/01/54 Church of St Paul
GV II*
Anglican church. 1831 by John Foulston, extended at E end 1890 by Hine & Odgers. Coursed Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; dry slate roof with moulded copings. Gothic style. PLAN: aisle-less plan with W gallery and central W tower plus slightly wider later chancel at the E end. EXTERIOR: 3-bay W front with moulded pediment interrupted by 2-stage central tower with angle buttresses and moulded strings; moulded parapet and octagonal corner pinnacles with moulded cornices and crocketed finials; similar pinnacles surmounting buttressed corners of the church. Central moulded pointed-arched doorway. 7-bay nave N and S walls have lancet windows with hoodmoulds between flat buttresses and linking strings. INTERIOR: moulded plaster ceiling cornice with dentils to nave; chancel with arch-braced roof structure; L-plan staircase with stick balusters and octagonal newels. Fittings include octagonal marble font and panelled pews to gallery, otherwise later pitch-pine fittings and altered to W end in the late C20. Glass: leaded glazing with coloured hammered glass of later C19 date. Stands in a little altered Late Georgian street, and represents a significant example (particularly externally) of the work of a prominent local architect. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 645).
Listing NGR: SX4642453757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473358
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 645
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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