Church of St Rumon
CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141916
- 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:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141916
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- 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:
- SW 72100 15224
Details
GRADE-RUAN RUAN MINOR
SW 71 NW
6/52 Church of St Rumon
10 7 57
II*
Parish church, originally 2-cell, circa C13. Nave extended westwards circa C14
and north aisle and tower added circa mid-C15. Restored in 1854 and chancel
extended in 1879. Rubble stone with scantle slate roof. Tower covered with
ivy. Chancel, 4-bay nave, north aisle, south porch and west tower. Chancel
roof raised with steeper pitch than nave. East window, 1879, 3-light with
elongated trefoil heads. North aisle, west window, 2-light pointed trefoil with
pointed quatrefoil (originally east window of chancel, central mullion inside
out). Blocked door to east 2-light cusped trefoil with quatrefoil above, cusped
trefoil headed lancet (transferred from north wall of nave when aisle added) and
east window of 2-lights under 3-centred arch with hood mould. North wall of
chancel with 2 lancet windows with trefoil heds. North wall of nave, 3-light
Perpendicular window with trefoil heads and 2-light trefoil headed window with
quatrefoil above, renewed in C19 under earlier hood mould. South porch with
steeply pitched gabled roof with mid-C19 wavy bargeboards. Square west tower of
1 stage with battlemented parapet and pyramidal roof. C19 2-light window. 4
small single belfry lights. Chancel roof, possibly mid-C19 with butt purlin
arch braced collar trusses. Simpler arch mid-C19 shallow roof to nave and
aisle. Squat arcade piers type-A (Pevsner), partly recarved with moulded
capitals. No bases (floor raised). Norman granite font with chevron decoration
on squat round shaft and square base. Alson font to west of porch, Cl4, taken
from Ruan Major, granite, with octagonal bowl and shaft on square base. Circa
C13 piscina with beak head ornament to base. Lecturn, in memory of Maria
Mallock, 1893, JJM. Polished serpentine with square base, round shaft and
composite capitals. Painted board with 10 Commandments in tower. Undated,
signed I.R.
Source: Kelly's Directory 1889, The Buildings of England N Pevsner and E
Radcliff, 2nd Ed. 1970, The Parish Churches of S Grade, S Ruan Minor and S Ruan
Major W Boxer Mayne, 1905
Listing NGR: SW7210015224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64632
- 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)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1889)
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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