PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164124
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164124
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Clyst St. George
National Grid Reference:: SX 98405 88914

Details

CLYST ST GEORGE CLYST ST GEORGE SX 98 NE 2/7 Parish Church of St George -

- II

Parish church. Early to mid-C15 west tower; the body of the church almost entirely rebuilt by Rev. H T Ellacombe in 1854-5, and this in turn was reduced to ruins by an incendiary bomb in 1940; the post-war rebuilding (which was not a copy of Ellacombe's work) was completed in 1952. Coursed rubble Heavitree stone. Slate roof. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel, south-east vestry. West tower: 2 stages, with renewed battlementing. South-east polygonal stair turret rises well above battlements. Set-back buttresses to north and south sides only, 3 set-offs. 2-light pointed belfry openings to all sides; single-light square-headed ringing chamber window to south; renewed 3-light west window; west doorway with C15 composite moulded surrounds and bases. The tower has the slim profile characteristic of many churches in the Exeter area. 2 and 3-light square-headed windows to north and south sides; south porch with wavy, cusped bargeboarding; vestry under catslide roof. Interior: Tower arch with panelled responds and soffit. 2 mural monuments of note survived the bombing : (1) brass to Julian Osborne (d.1614), epitaph with kneeling woman at prayer desk, and shield above; (2) monument erected by George Gibbs in 1708 and completely C17 in feel, inscription panel with putti flanked by Corinthian columns that support scrolled pediment with heraldic device.

Listing NGR: SX9840588914

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Legacy System number:: 86144
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.