CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH

CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH, REDHILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129232
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH, REDHILL

West end and tower, in the Easter season, with empty cross and grave cloths symbolising the resurrection. — Uploaded by William Hall This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129232
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH, REDHILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH, REDHILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wrington
National Grid Reference:: ST4966863224

Details

ST 46 SE 5/161

WRINGTON REDHILL

Church of Christ Church

II

Anglican Parish Church. 1844, by James Wilson. Squared lias over ashlar plinth and limestone dressings, Welsh slate roof. Wide nave, shallow chancel, west tower, south porch, organ chamber and vestry to north. In a simple early English style with lancets under hoods; nave, south, 1 + 3 windows, diagonal buttresses to corners, square between windows, all to 2 offsets; gabled porch with diagonal buttresses, inner plank doors. Chancel has single light south, stepped triplet east, 2 singles north, diagonal buttresses. Crenellated flat-roofed organ chamber, lancet east and west, plank door in pointed double chamfer surround)north, then 3 nave lancets, but no intermediate buttresses; diagonal buttress to corner. Tower in 2 stages plus crenellation. Blocked doorway to west lancet at first level and paired lancets to bell stage over moulded string, surmounted by crenellations over moulded string. Interior: very simple unaisled space, colour-washed, plain reveals to lancets; 2 arch arcade to organ chamber, double chamfer arches on octagonal columns. Five-bay arch-braced queen post trusses with turned dropped finials, carried on corbels to north side only. Simple chamfer arch to tower; single chamfer arch on slender responds to stiff-leaf capitals. Plain boarded pitched ceiling to chancel. South side of chancel has 1874 memorial window; east windows signed A K Nicholson, London,1931, to Mary Monica Cunliffe Wills. Stone altar table; Jacobean oak altar table in nave and Jacobean parish chest. Tiled floors to chancel and tower, otherwise wood block. Simple late C19 pews. Good brass lectern. Complex font with 8 attached colonnettes. All very basic and clinical (Pevsner, N Somerset and Bristol; 1958)

Listing NGR: ST4966863224

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Legacy System number:: 34034
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.