Church of St Budeaux
CHURCH OF ST BUDEAUX, CROWNHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130049
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Budeaux
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BUDEAUX, CROWNHILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130049
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Budeaux
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BUDEAUX, CROWNHILL ROAD
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 BUDEAUX, CROWNHILL ROAD
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 45428 59285
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4559SW CROWNHILL ROAD, St Budeaux 740-1/13/617 (North side (off)) 25/01/54 Church of St Budeaux (Formerly Listed as: ST BUDEAUX Church of St Budoc)
GV II*
Parish church. Re-used C13/C14 features to tower, rebuilt 1563 on site given by Richard Budockshead; restored and refitted by James Hine in 1876. Local rubble with granite dressings; dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. PLAN: nave/chancel; equal N and S aisles; W tower and S porch and C20 vestry to NW angle. EXTERIOR: unaltered elevations with original windows and doorways except that tower incorporates earlier fragments and its doorway is a C19 replacement with pointed arch and planked door with strap hinges. 3-stage unbuttressed and embattled tower has strings dividing stages and slender corner pinnacles; Y-traceried windows with louvred lights to upper stage; single-light windows to middle stage and 2-light window with cusped tracery over doorway. The other parts of the church have mostly 3-light windows with 4-centred arched central lights flanked by round-arched lights, all under 4-centred arches with hoodmoulds. S aisle has 1 arched window flanked by 2 with flat arches. 4-centred arched doorways, the moulded S porch doorway with sunk spandrels and square hoodmould; sundial over; blocked doorway to E end of N wall. INTERIOR: has limewashed rubble walls with exposed rear arches; pointed tower arch of 2 orders; simple C19 replica waggon roofs, and 4-bay arcades with depressed arch over standard A (Pevsner) piers. FITTINGS: 1876 by James Hine, the pews with square ends and V-jointed boards and octagonal oak pulpit with quatrefoils. MONUMENTS: Roger Budockshead and family and Sir William Gorges and family, 1600; marble and slate 2-panel pilastered chest tomb with slate top and Baroque backplate surmounted by coat of arms with segmental arch on Tuscan columns to John Fownes who died 1669; an aedicule with Ionic columns; a cartouche with drapery to Lewis Stanley who died in 1693, another to Charles Fortesque, a Corinthian freestone and marble aedicule, both with angels' heads; 2 floor slabs: one to Richard Trevail, died 1665, the other dated 1648. HISTORY: Sir Francis Drake was married here in 1569. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 642).
Listing NGR: SX4542859285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473286
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 642
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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