Church of St Nun With Attached Wall, Railings and Gateway to South
CHURCH OF ST NUN WITH ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY TO SOUTH, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144041
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nun With Attached Wall, Railings and Gateway to South
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NUN WITH ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY TO SOUTH, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144041
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nun With Attached Wall, Railings and Gateway to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NUN WITH ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY TO SOUTH, FORE STREET
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 NUN WITH ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY TO SOUTH, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grampound with Creed
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 93590 48311
Details
GRAMPOUND FORE STREET (north side), Grampound SW 9248-9348 WITH CREED 7/42 Church of St Nun with attached - wall, railings and gateway to south
GV II
Chapel of ease. Dated 1869. Slatestone rubble with granite and limestone dressings. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends with raised coped verges and bellcote to west. Cross finial on the roof ridge set on raised coping over the junction between the nave and the chancel. Plan: Nave and chancel in one. South porch. C20 south vestry. Early English style. Exterior: The nave and chancel are on a chamfered plinth. To south, the nave has two 2-light windows and one single light, with cusped lights, 2-centred arch and hood mould. To north there are 3 similar windows, all with limestone surrounds. To west there are 3 lancets, the central one taller, with hood moulds and relieving arch, breather above. Gabled bellcote above with 2 arched openings and image nich. The chancel has an apsidal east end with 4 cusped lancets each with upper tracery quatrefoil and 2-centred arch. Gabled south porch has raised coped verges and cross finial; 2-centred arched roll-moulded outer doorway, with plank door with good ironwork. The gabled south vestry, of C20, has 3-light window to west and door in the south gable. There is a retaining wall enclosing an area to south of the church, in an L-plan; there is a granite coping to the wall, with twisted iron railings with trefoil finials, the stanchions with a cable moulding; cross finials to each side of the pedestrian gateway. Interior: The nave has 4-bay arched-brace roof rising from carved stone corbels, with one tier of windbraces. The west window has nook shafts. Chamfered north doorway with 2-centred arch, door with strap hinges. The chancel arch is 2-centred, piers to sides with carved capitals and hood mould with foliate stops. The east end of the chancel has a wooden vaulted roof, the ribs rising from stone corbels. Carved stone reredos with blank cusped arches and crocketed hoods and a centrepiece with carved panels. Aumbry to left and piscina to right. Dated 1869 over south door from chancel to vestry. Fittings: C19 wooden benches in nave stalls in chancel with poppy head bench ends. Communion rail in wrought iron. Stone pulpit in nave with marble colonnettes and open cusped arches. Octagonal granite font in nave. Good brass candelabra on the walls of the nave and four corona lucis candelabra in the nave and chancel. All windows lattice glazed. The church of St Nun was built in 1869 on the site of a C15 chapel, of which nothing remains. Sources: Pevsner, N. Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.
Listing NGR: SW9359048311
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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