Church of St Rumon
CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1141915
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumon
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1141915
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumon
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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 RUMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grade-Ruan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7038316426
Details
GRADE-RUAN RUAN MAJOR SW 71 NW 6/49 Church of St Rumon (formerly listed as Church of St Rumon, Ruan Major) 10 7 57 I
Parish church, now redundant and ruinous. Chancel possibly circa C13. Tower circa late C14. South arcade circa early C15 and north arcade slightly later. Porch circa late C15. Remodelled in 1866-7 when the aisles were removed and the arcades walled up. Porch moved. Rubble stone with large ashlar blocks of serpentine and granite in tower. Roofs now gone. East window, 3-light, C19 plate tracery. North wall of nave walled up. South wall with three 2-light windows with trefoils above. Under 3-centred arches. Reset. South door under moulded 3-centred arch with carved spandrels. Gabled porch with octagonal engaged shafts with cusped blind tracery (similar to Mullion Church). Carved capitals eroded. Moulded, 3-centred arch. Unbuttressed battlemented west tower with crocketted pinnacles. 2 stairs with bold string courses. West door with segmental head and chamfered granite jambs. Voussoirs. West window with 3- light Reticulated tracery under 3-centred arch with banded voussoirs. 2-light belfry opening with louvres on each face. South arcade, type-A (Pevsner) piers with low bases and moulded capitals and abaci. Moulded round arches. North arcade, type-A (Pevsner) piers as on south but with square abaci. Break in arcade for rood screen. Porphyry coffin lid on tower floor. Source: The Buildings of England, Cornwall, N Pevsner and E Radcliff 1970 The Parish Churches of S Grade, S Ruan Major and S Ruan Minor, W Boxer Mayne, 1905
Listing NGR: SW7039316429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
Boxer Mayne, W, The Parish Churches of S Grade S Ruan Major and S Ruan Minor, (1905)
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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