Church of St Gregory
CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, COLYFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1164812
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, COLYFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1164812
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, COLYFORD ROAD
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 GREGORY, COLYFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 24715 90576
Details
SEATON COLYFORD ROAD 1. 5176 Church of St Gregory SY 2489 SY 2490 1/4 2.10.51 I 2. Parish church. Circa late C13 and early C14 with later alterations including C15 west tower. Restored in 1860 by Edward Ashworth. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Nave with flat-headed two and three-light south windows one with ogee arched lights. North aisle and north transept with two and three-light windows with reticulated tracery and three-light intersecting traceried east window of transept now only visible inside. South chapel has restored perpendicular three-light east window and decorated window in what was south transept. Chancel has datestone 1764 in the gable, restored three-light east window and two-light south window. South porch with chamfered arch.
squat C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses, polygonal stair turret on south side enbattled parapet, single-light bell openings with cusped arches and three-light west window with reticulated tracery, over moulded arch west doorway.
Interior: moulded north arcade without capitals. Only two bays of arcade remain, the west end is supported on cast iron columns to allow late C19 gallery to span the width of the church into the north aisle. Similar chancel arch without capitals. Squint from north transept. Treble-chamfered tower arch with shafts in the responds. C19 roofs and furnishings.
Monuments: Richard Kettle 1787, slate tablet. Jonathan Bowden 1726, a tablet, Walrond and wife, 1640, reset over doorway with kneeling figure above. William Walrond 1787.
Listing NGR: SY2471690575
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87581
- 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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