Church of St Rumon
CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171301
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumon
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171301
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumon
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMON
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 RUMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Romansleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 72724 20593
Details
ROMANSLEIGH ROMANSLEIGH SS 72 SW 1/50 Church of St Rumon 20.2.67 GV II Parish church. 1868 by Edward Ashworth, tower of 1887 but using some re-used earlier material. Coursed and square local rubble, slate roofs with coped verges, the ridges crested, cruciform finials. Plan: High Victorian Decorated and Perpendicular style. Nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, west tower. Exterior: 2 stage tower with embattled parapet, stair-turret, buttresses to west face on bottom stage; 2-light bell-chamber windows and a 2-light west window Perpendicular style, west doorway. 4 bay nave, Decorated style and Perpendicular style tracery to north windows, richly carved. Gabled south porch, pointed arch outer door opening with single-moulding, inside a moulded inner doorway of 2 orders, unceiled wagon roof. 2 bay chancel, blank on north, with a lean-to vestry, a square-headed single-light and a 2-light window to the south, trefoiled. Interior: plastered on flagstone floors; a fitted carpet covering the nave floor, encaustic tile pavement to chancel; sanctuary with fitted carpet. Nave under 4- bayed hammer-beam roof, on simple stone corbels; panelled ringing - chamber floor to the tower; chancel under ceiled wagon roof with big bosses. Tower arch appears to be early with flat-pointed head, probably reused from an earlier tower, also the doorway to the stair-turret. Furniture: High Victorian Gothic fittings including pulpit, pine pews, choir stalls, cased organ, altar rails and the altar table. Perpendicular style octagonal font. Small C18 chest. Two C19 wall monuments. 4 mid C19 stained glass windows; the north and south windows to the east of the nave with robust stained glass of 1953 and 1959 by James Peterson A.R.C.A, of Bideford. Remainder of windows with simple diamond-paned leaded lights.
Listing NGR: SS7272420593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97455
- 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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