CHURCH OF SAINT JUST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1141006
Date first listed:: 30-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT JUST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT JUST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1141006
Date first listed:: 30-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT JUST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT JUST

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 JUST

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Just-in-Roseland
National Grid Reference:: SW 84845 35690

Details

SW 83 NW ST JUST IN ROSELAND ST JUST

2/108 Church of Saint Just - 30-5-67 GV I

Parish Church. C13, (consecrated 1216) C15, restored 1872 and C20 vestry. Slatestone with granite tower buttresses, C15 windows and doorways. Scantle slate roofs with gable ends. Nave and chancel under one roof, west tower, north transept, south aisle and south porch. C15 tower of 2 stages has weathered diagonal corner buttresses, string dividing stages and under parapet with battlements. Pointed moulded west doorway with hood mould and relieving arch. 3-light Perpendicular window over with replaced mullions C20, hoodmould and relieving arch. Original arch headed 2-light Perpendicular windows to upper stage with hoodmoulds cinquefoil lights and slate louvres. Octagonal stair turret to east of south wall of tower rises above tower parapet and has extra string and battlements. Clockface below second string on south side. North wall of nave, contemporary with tower has 2, C15 3-light Perpendicular windows with C20 boiler house between with lean-to slate roof and rubble stack. Transept and adjoining vestry left, remodelled to have roof parallel to nave roof. Transept probably incorporating some C13-C14 walling has C15, 2-light, Perpendicular window to west and north wall. Pointed, chamfered doorway to vestry left and tall 2-light window to east gable. North wall of chancel, C13 has C15, 2-light window with round headed lights, left and C15, pointed doorway right. East window of chancel gable end is C19 of freestone in Perpendicular style. East window in south aisle gable has original C15 frame but C19 freestone tracery. South wall of south aisle is entirely C15 complete with 1, 3-light Perpendicular window to left of porch and 5 to right. West gable window similar. South porch, also C15 has fine granite doorway with trefoil headed panels on engaged octagonal jambs with moulded bases and capital as responds to ordered 4-centred almost rounded arch with cusping mostly broken away. Surrounding granite ashlar walling. Original moulded inner doorway. Porch has surviving C15 oak waggon roof with moulded ribs and purlins, carved wallplate and central boss. Old carved plaster fragment set into wall plaster. Interior of Church : nave roof probably early C19 with arch-braced collars and roll moulding to bracing and under purlins. Roof was originally in form of waggon roof with plaster panels between, now with exposed common rafters. Chancel has closer set arched braced collar roof in form of waggon roof. Paint on bracing to both roofs. Aisle roof, probably 1872 is similar arch braced type. All 3 roofs have moulded cornices with painted bible texts. Granite arcade of 7 bays between nave/chancel and south aisle has standard A (Pevsner) piers with 4 engaged shaft and capitals over each shaft supporting inner and outer hollow chamfer basket arches. Chancel has thicker walling surviving from C13 and contemporary trefoil headed piscina to south in arcade respond. Tower arch springs from corbelled responds and may survive from earlier tower. Pointed granite doorway in tower to granite newel stair. Old painted decoration surrounding south doorway and north doorway of chancel. Also, now headed, painted panel of The Lords Prayer 1693 beside south doorway. Slate flagged floor. Fittings of C19 pine pews with scrolled and carved bench ends; polygonal pulpit with engaged shafts to angles dividing painted trefoil headed panels and C15 Perpendicular octagonal granite font with quatrefoil panels. Brass of priest on east wall of aisle is either that of Perys d. 1504 or Jeffrey 1529 both Rectors of the parish.

Listing NGR: SW8484635692

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Legacy System number:: 63071
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.