Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, HEIGHTINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145814
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, HEIGHTINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145814
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, HEIGHTINGTON ROAD
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 GILES, HEIGHTINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rock
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76758 71162
Details
SO 77 SE ROCK CP HEIGHTINGTON ROAD (north side) Heightington
5/318 Church of St Giles
25.2.58
- II*
Chapel. C13 with C14 alterations, restored C17 and late C19. Random rubble with brick dressings. Nave and chancel in one. South wall: three windows: two 2-ogeed light windows with square heads flanking a lancet, south porch to left of C19, brick with C17 boarded door; wooden bell- turret of C19 to west end; east window: a restored lancet; in north wall: a C13 lancet to left, two C17 square-headed windows with 2-light casements to right. Interior: west gallery probably C17 with turned balusters and moulded hand rail to balustrade, a newel staircase and some fixed benches made of C17 panellfng. Roof of three bays with C17 king-post trusses. A modest church graded II* for its surviving medieval fabric. (VCH 4, p 326; BoE p 195).
Listing NGR: SO7675871162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 195
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 195
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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