Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164786
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164786
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stokenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81955 40462
Details
STOKENHAM, BEESANDS,
SX84SW,
8/183
Church of St Andrew
II
Church, formerly Church Mission Room. 1883. Rendered stone. Slate roof
with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles.
Plan: Single cell rectangular plan church with a north (liturgical west)
entrance through a porch with an integral vestry or stove.
Exterior: The east (liturgical south) side has three gables each with a
decorated style tracery stone 2-light window in a 2-centred arch chamfered
opening; similar window in the north (liturgical east) end. Small window
slits in both end gables. Set back on the south (liturgical west) end a
gable-ended rendered porch with a wooden bellcote with cusped open sides and
a tented spire with a finial and a panelled door to church. A small yard in
front of the porch has rendered wall and a C19 cast-iron gate with spear-
head finials. The west (liturgical north) side has a straight headed window
with three pointed-headed lights and two small recessed panels. Over the north
(liturgical east) gable a simple wooden cross.
Interior: Rendered walls and original collar-rafter roof. Simple C19 altar
table and portable open-sided wooden pulpit. The font is a Second World War
memorial.
Note: Kelly's Directory of 1889 states "A Mission Room has been erected at
Beesands at the expense of Miss Theresa Johnson of Totres, assisted by a few
subscribers".
Listing NGR: SX8195540462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99967
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1889)
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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