Church of St Edward
CHURCH OF ST EDWARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162816
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edward
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDWARD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162816
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edward
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDWARD
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 EDWARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaugh Prior
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 54280 63112
Details
SX 56 SW SHAUGH PRIOR SHAUGH PRIOR 5/107 29-3-60 Church of St Edward GV I
Parish Church. C15 not heavily restored in C19. Stone rubble with granite dressings. Granite ashlar tower and slate roofs. Nave. Chancel has 4-light Perpendicular east window. Long north and south aisles. North aisle has straight-headed windows with three 4-light south windows of C14 pattern, 3-light Perpendicular east window and granite buttresses. Two storeyed south porch with moulded 4-centred arch doorway, diagonal buttresses, tall embattled parapet and rib vaulted inside. Fine tall west tower in 3 stages, with set-back buttresses moulded base and string courses and large octagonal crenellated and crocketted pinnacles. Polygonal stair turret on south side of tower. Two-light 4-centred arch bell-openings and 3-light Perpendicular west window over west doorway which has quatrefoils in the spandrels and moulded label. Four bay north and south arcades with wide 4-centred double-chamfered arches on moulded monolithic granite piers with moulded capitals. Furnishings largely C19 with the exception of a very interesting C16 front cover (which was found in a farm building and restored in 1870s) in the form of a 2-storeyed lantern shaped octagon with a conical top. The later chancel roof has some C15 carved bosses. Medieval alter stone in west end.
Listing NGR: SX5428163111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99214
- 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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