Church of St Egwin
CHURCH OF ST EGWIN, EVESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166454
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Egwin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EGWIN, EVESHAM ROAD
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- 2001-12-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/03442/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166454
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Egwin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EGWIN, EVESHAM 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 EGWIN, EVESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton and Lenchwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 04198 47759
Details
NORTON & LENCHWICK CP EVESHAM ROAD (west side) SP 04 NW
3/115 Church of St Egwin
30.7.59
GV II*
Parish church. C15, restored 1844. Coursed lias rubble with ashlar dress- ings and stone slate roof. Chancel, nave, south porch, north transept and west tower. West tower: C15 of two stages with offset and diagonal buttresses, the crenellated parapet has corner pinnacles and gargoyles below. The roof is gabled with stone slate covering. Belfry has openings of two trefoiled lights under a square head. At west end of nave are two lancets which have squinches cut into tower. Nave is mostly of 1844: four bays with diagonal buttresses to corners, porch in bay to left of centre. Arch of south door of three stones forming three sides of an octagon with an internal cusp (re-set). Windows of two trefoiled lights under square heads. Chancel: C14, heavily restored 1844, of two bays, window to left has a cinquefoiled head and a square label, to right of two trefoiled lights under a segmental pointed head. East window C19, three trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head. North transept: of two bays, north window of four cinquefoiled lights under a 2-centred head. Interior: segmental pointed tower arch of two chamfered orders, the inner order with respond shafts. Chancel arch, C19, segmental pointed. Arch to north chapel segmental pointed of two orders. Roofs: nave of four bays, trusses have tie- beams and collars, chancel roof of three bays with arch-brace collars and tie- beams. Transept has a C14 common rafter roof, the arch-braces and ashlar pieces curved to form a 2-centred arch. Fittings: font in nave, C15 octagon font with quatrefoils on octagonal pier. C12 lectern from Evesham of marble on C19 base. Pulpit of C17 panelling with blind tracery back board. Chancel partly lined with linen fold panelling. North transept contains three tombs of the Bigge family: Sir Thomas Bigge, died 1621, alabaster altar tomb with recumbent alabaster effigy, over which is a tester on four Ionic columns of black marble; Thomas Bigge, died 1581, and wife, two recumbent effigies on altar tomb; Sir Thomas Bigge, died 1613, and wife, two kneeling figures under a semi-circular arch supported on Ionic columns. Over each of first two tombs there hangs a helm, crest, gauntlets, spurs, tabard and several banners. (BoE, p 225-6; VCH, 2, pp 418-420).
Listing NGR: SP0419847759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1906), 418-420
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 225-6
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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