Charles Church
CHARLES CHURCH, CHARLES CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130021
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Charles Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLES CHURCH, CHARLES CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130021
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Charles Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARLES CHURCH, CHARLES CROSS
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:
- CHARLES CHURCH, CHARLES CROSS
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 48216 54605
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854 CHARLES CROSS, Plymouth
740-1/58/359 Charles Church
25/01/54
GV I
Parish church ruin. 1640-1658, one of very few established
churches built during the Commonwealth, tower completed 1708,
the present stone spire replacing a wooden one in 1766, 2
small C19 accretions, interior refitted 1828-29 by JH Ball
(now lost); gutted during the Blitz and now preserved as a
symbolic ruin and war memorial at the centre of a major
roundabout. Plymouth limestone ashlar with granite dressings;
ashlar spire to tower.
STYLE: Gothic Survival style with elaborate Perpendicular
detail except for the E chancel window which has Decorated
detail with rose tracery.
PLAN: nave/chancel, N and S aisles and W tower.
EXTERIOR: buttresses with finials dividing the bays; traceried
windows with hoodmoulds; the E window particularly fine;
4-centred arched doorways with square hoodmoulds. 3-stage
tower with offset corner buttresses; strings dividing the
diminishing stages; round-arched 3-light upper-stage windows
with simple tracery; octagonal spire behind a parapet with
moulded cornice and square corner pinnacles with pineapple
finials.
INTERIOR: arcades with standard A (Pevsner) piers and
depressed arches. Many wall monuments.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
641).
Listing NGR: SX4821654603
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 8 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 641
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25734
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/98419
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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