Church of Saint Credan
CHURCH OF SAINT CREDAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143822
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Credan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT CREDAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143822
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Credan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT CREDAN
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 CREDAN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sancreed
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 42025 29356
Details
SANCREED SANCREED SW 42 NW 5/287 Church of Saint Credan - GV II* Parish church. Norman font and reset Norman doorway in north wall, circa late C14 - early C15 tower, otherwise C15 largely rebuilt in restoration of 1881-91 by J.D. Sedding. Granite ashlar tower, otherwise dressed granite and rubble roughly coursed. Dry Delabole slate roofs with granite coped gable ends. Granite ashlar chimney over right hand wall of north transept. Plan: Originally probably a cruciform church but extended and remodelled in the C15. Nave/chancel under one roof; north transept, circa late C14 west tower,with external stair turret against the north wall. C15 south aisle (probably largely rebuilt 1881- 91), with canted rood stair projection, and C15 south porch. Medieval doorways and original windows to tower; C15 5-light chancel east window; other windows are C19 copies of C15 windows incorporating some C15 masonry. Re-roofed in the C19 re-using some fragments of the C15 roofs. Exterior: Unaltered single-stage unbuttressed embattled west tower with pinnacles over the corners. Pointed-arched hollow-chamfered west doorway, 2-light Perpendicular windows with traceried heads. North doorway is roll-moulded with a monolithic tympanum set back within a rubble arch. C15 4-centred south porch doorway is hollow chamfered; sundial over inscribed; A C fecit 1752. C15 4-centred arched inner doorway with square hoodmould over and there is a blocked ogee-arched-headed priests doorway towards the east end of the south wall. Interior: C19 plastered walls; late C14 or early C15 pointed tower arch over moulded imposts; C15 5-bay arcade between nave/chancel and south aisle with roll-moulded piers; similar 2-bay arcade between nave and north transept; arched rood stair doorway; holy water stoup in porch; predominantly C19 waggon roofs with reused C15 roof timbers in roof of south aisle and virtually complete C15 waggon roof with C19 carved bosses in the porch. Fittings: Norman font with 4 angels holding shields; C15 carved panelled base of former rood screen with some original paint. Otherwise C19 fittings in the Perpendicular style. Monuments: Marble wall monument to John Scobell of Poltair (formerly of Nancealvern), died 1825 aged 41; Tuscan aedicule with segmentally arched pediment to William Alexander Stanhope Forbes, 1893-1916, born at Trewarveneth, later student of architecture at Bedales School, killed at Guilbmont in the Somme battlefield. The monument has a bronze half-length portrait in relief by Stanhope A Forbes (Newlyn School of painters).
Listing NGR: SW4202529356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69827
- 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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