Church of the Holy Ghost
CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174327
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ghost
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174327
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ghost
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
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 THE HOLY GHOST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14073 36710
Details
ST1436 CROWCOMBE CP
16/52 Church of the Holy Ghost
22.5.69
GV I Incorrectly shown on OS aap as Holy Trinity Church. Parish Church. C14 tower, otherwise C15, North chapel added 1665, church restored late 1720s and again 1869-70. Red sandstone squared and coursed, random rubble tower, C19 slate roofs, decorative ridge tiles. 4 bay nave, chancel, 5 bay South aisle, South Porch, West tower, North aisle chapel with anteroom. 3 stage crenellated tower, diagonal buttresses, irregular shaped stair turret North East corner, 2-light bell openings with transoms, 3-light West window with reticulated tracery. South aisle crenellated with solid quatrefoil decoration in merlons, finials, gabled ends, set back buttresses, string course with gargoyles, all 3-light transomed windows except 4-light East end, 4 centred arch door inserted end bay right on facade. 2 storey gabled porch between first and second bays, crenellated returns, setback buttresses, finials, string course, 3-light window and crenellated stair turret South West corner. Stone fan vaulting in porch. Chancel 4-light East window, 3-light lancets on returns. North aisle chapel 3-light windows on East and North fronts under hood moulds, similar to private West entrance with Carew coat of arms above. There are a number of tablets to servants of the Carew and Bernard families at Crowcombe Court (qv). Interior: rendered. Tall standard Perpendicular arcade and piers with foliage band capitals. C19 open wagon roofs, ceiled in chancel. One of the best collection of bench ends in the county, early C16. Very fine late C14- early C15 octagonal font with sculptural panels. Screen and pulpit 1729 by Thomas Parker to replace those destroyed by fire; rare example of early C18 screen. North chapel, still property of the Lord of the Manor, set over family vault, C17 panelling, large colection of hatchments. "Sumptuous" South aisle (Pevsner) and excellent collection of fittings. (?evsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; VCH, Vol 5 forthcoming; SANHS proceedings, p 61 1908 and p 84 1941 photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1407236712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1908), 61
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1941), 84
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
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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