Church of St Werburgha
CHURCH OF ST WERBURGHA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161531
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Werburgha
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WERBURGHA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161531
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Werburgha
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WERBURGHA
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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 WERBURGHA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warbstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 20535 90344
Details
WARBSTOW SX 29 SW 3/249 Church of St Werburgha (previously listed as Church of St Werburgh) 22.11.60 GV II*
Church dedicated to St Werburgha. Probably Norman origins. C15 tower and north aisle. Restored in 1861. Stone rubble with moulded plinth. Roughly coursed and dressed stone to west tower and north aisle. Granite ashlar south porch. Slate roofs. Plan: Nave, chancel, west tower, 5-bay north aisle and north porch. The church has Norman origins, the-west tower and north aisle added in circa late C15 and the north porch in 1601 (datestone). Restored in 1861. Exterior: Unbuttressed west tower of 2 stages, with battlemented parapet and corner finials. No west door,the west window possibly reset or reduced with a multiple moulded arch and jambs. 2-light cusped belfry openings with slate louvers. Nave has 3 square headed 3-light Perpendicular windows. Chancel has circa C13 2-light window and reset possibly C12 lancet window. C19 chancel window. The north aisle has complete circa late C15 Perpendicular 3-light windows and the north porch was added in 1601 with a 4-centred outer arch and has incised spandrels and datestone above. The gable parapet has scrolled kneelers. Inner doorway has a 2-centred arch, probably Polyphant stone with cavetto moulding decorated with raised carved fleurons; the arch was probably reset from the nave when the north aisle was added. Incised cross in roundel to right of right hand jamb. Niche above entrance with base of carved pedestal. Interior: C19. Plastered walls and C19 roofs. Type A (Pevsner) granite piers to the 5-bay north arcade with moulded caps and bases and 4-centred granite moulded arches. Simple C19 furnishings. Norman font; square bowl with stylised floral patterns on the four sides and carved heads on the corners. Octagonal stem and round base. Pevsner, N. and Radcliffe, E. The Buildings of England, Cornwall 2nd edition 1970. Sedding, E.H. Norman Architecture in Cornwall
Listing NGR: SX2053590344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sedding, H, Norman Architecture in Cornwall: A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, (1909)
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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