CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC

CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC, CHURCHTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1137373
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC, CHURCHTOWN

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Date:: 1999-09-17
Reference:: IOE01/00095/30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1137373
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT TOWENNAC, CHURCHTOWN

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 SAINT TOWENNAC, CHURCHTOWN

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Towednack
National Grid Reference:: SW 48697 38077

Details

TOWEDNACK CHURCHTOWN, Towednack SW 43 NE 4/212 Church of Saint Towennac - 10.6.54 GV II* Parish church. Base of Norman font, C13 or C14 chancel arch and chancel, otherwise C15. Granite ashlar and some granite rubble. Dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gable ends. C19 crested clay ridge tiles. Plan: nave rebuilt C15; chancel late C13 or early C14; C15 west tower; C15 south aisle and south porch. Windows and roofs replaced in the C19. Exterior: squat 2-stage embattled west tower with original doorway and window over and louvred 2-light windows to upper stage. Fat external stair turret to north east corner approached from doorway in nave. 4-centred arched south doorway, possibly reused pointed porch doorway with 1720 sundial over and basket arched north doorway. The C19 windows are 2 or 3-light with hoodmoulds and round-headed lights except for chancel east window with intersecting tracery within a pointed arch, possibly C19 copy of original window. Interior: C13 or C14 ordered pointed chancel arch, thick chancel walls: C13 piscina; C15 4-bay arcade with octagonal piers carrying 4-centred arches; circa 1500 4-centred tower arch with octagonal responds and basket-arched doorway of same date to tower stair. C19 waggon roofs. Plain plastered walls, possibly over old plaster. Fittings: Norman granite altar with incised crosses reinstated in 1934 (church guide); chevron-headed Norman base to octagonal font dated 1720 with initials WB and JR; 2 C15 carved oak bench ends reused to bench in the chancel; medieval incised cross shaft in porch, otherwise C19 or C20 fittings.

Listing NGR: SW4869738077

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Legacy System number:: 70551
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.