Church of England Institute

CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141805
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of England Institute
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141805
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of England Institute
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Marhamchurch
National Grid Reference:
SS 22393 03721

Details

SS 20 SW MARHAMCHURCH MARHAMCHURCH

7/57 Church of England Institute -

GV II

Church of England Institute, 1913, built for the Bray family of Langford Hill (q.v.). Squared stone brought to course with freestone and granite dressings. Slate roof. Arts and Crafts, free Tudor style. The building is on a corner site with a large entrance porch on the corner. Steeply-pitched deep roofs run north/south and west/east, gabled to the north, hipped to the east. Grand 2- storey gabled corner porch with moulded granite coping and rusticated granite kneelers surmounted by balls. Moulded 4-centre arched doorway with studded door with cover strips under square-headed hoodmould with label stops. Above the doorway an inscription panel 'The Bray Church of England Institute' with 3-light granite mullioned window above. Coat of arms above window contained in niche formed from pilasters supporting cornice, and volutes to either side of pilasters. Date panel in gable. Flanking wings to left and right have 3 square- headed, transomed stone mullioned windows, with leaded fixed lights and leaded casements, the tall central window rising into a gabled dormer with kneelers and moulded coping, wing to left is longer with buttresses with weatherings between the windows. North gable end has timber in upper part of gable carried on corbels. Tall stone lateral chimneys have slates peaked over flues. Granite posts with chains strung between each side of porch.

Listing NGR: SS2239303721

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Legacy System number:
64875
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.

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