Church of Saint Sennen
CHURCH OF SAINT SENNEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143798
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Sennen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT SENNEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143798
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Sennen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT SENNEN
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 SAINT SENNEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sennen
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 35709 25517
Details
SENNEN SENNEN SW 32 NE 4/334 Church of Saint Sennen - GV II* Parish church. C13, extended in the C15, restored in 1867. Granite ashlar tower and south aisle, otherwise rubble granite dressings. Concrete tile roofs with gable ends. Plan: Nave/chancel and north transept retain walls from the C13; west tower, south aisle and south porch were added in the C15. In the C19 the church was re-roofed and much window tracery was replaced. Exterior: Complete C15 unbuttressed 3-stage embattled west tower with pinnacles over the corners. Original (blocked) 4-centred arched doorway; 2-light window over and traceried 2-light louvered windows to the upper stage. South aisle has its original C15 windows. Chancel east window is C19 in Perpendicular style. Interior: C15 pointed tower arch carried on corbels; C15 5 bay arcade with roll- moulded piers with fillets between carrying 4-centred arches over moulded capitals; C15 4-centred arch between nave and north transept. C15 mural at east end of chancel. Other features are mostly C19 including wall plaster and arch-braced and wind-braced roof structures. Fittings: Probably C13 moulded round font bowl over a probably C15 octagonal shaft and moulded octagonal base dated 1448; C13 statue of virgin and child at east end of south aisle; C15 bench end, probably from Church of Saint Levan qv; C17 copy of letter from Charles I in 1643; poor box, dated 1732 near south doorway, otherwise fittings are mostly C19 or C20. Monuments: Wall monument to James Trembath, died 1867 aged 64 (west wall of north transept).
Listing NGR: SW3570925517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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