Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1158046
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1158046
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH DRIVE
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 ANDREW, CHURCH DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Congresbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43566 63762
Details
ST 46 SW CONGRESBURY C.P. CHURCH DRIVE (east side)
4/97 Church of St. Andrew 9.2.61 G.V. I
Anglican parish church. C13 origin remodelled in C15 with restorations in 1825, 1856 and 1950-2. Coursed and squared rubble with flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone copings and ashlar dressings, copper roof to nave, slates to chancel. Nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, south porch. Principal windows are of 3-lights with Perpendicular cusped tracery under pointed-arched heads with some C19 renewal and C19 face stops to hoodmoulds. Smaller, similar 2-light Perpendicular windows to nave clerestory. East window of 5 lights. Offset buttresses to aisles with blind embattled parapets and crocketted pinnacles. Tower of 2 stages with spire. Offset diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, blind embattled parapet with corner crocketted pinnacles. 2-light bell openings on all faces except the east which has a large clock face decorated with border cusping. Gargoyles to north face only. West facade has a doorway with deep reveal decorated with 2 tiers of niches in the jambs; 2-leaf plank door. Above this a 3-light C15 window under pointed head. Octagonal tapering spire with 2-light ogee-headed openings to alternate faces. North aisle with polygonal rood stair turret, gargoyles and figure niche to parapet and north doorway of 3 orders with C19 face stops to hoodmould and plank door. South porch with 4-centred arched doorway and 2-leaf plank door. 3-light windows under flat head to parvise. South doorway with fleurons in the jambs and an ogee gable with large finial. Interior. Nave has 4-bay C13 arcades, that to the south with detached Purbeck shafts to piers replaced in 1856. Fine face stops in the spandrels of the north aisle arcade. Complex moulded tower arch. Barrel roof much restored but with original bosses and intricate tracery to wall plate. Fine stone corbels : all faces with toothache commemorating William Button (Bishop of Bath and Wells 1218- 64). Rood loft opening and stair door on north wall. Tall chancel arch with wave moulding and faces half way up jambs. Chancel has C19 wagon roof and double C13 piscina on south wall. Aisles have plaster ribbed vaults with face corbels. South chapel has pointed-headed piscina and Easter sepulchre recess. Fittings. C13 font with cable moulding on bowl supported by 4 shafts; Jacobean font cover. C19 Early English style pulpit, C19 brass lectern. Fine C15 rood screen with some renewal. C20 stained glass in south aisle windows, C19 glass in east window with medieval fragments in top lights. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4356663766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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