Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174682
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174682
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59061 44421
Details
ST54SE CROSCOMBE CP CHURCH STREET (East side)
14/28 Church of St Mary the Virgin
2.6.61
GV I
Anglican Parish Church. Predominantly C15/C16; C19 restoration. Ashlar, lead sheeting roofs, coped verges, cruciform finials. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles clasping the latter, the south with a 2-storey meeting room at its west end, north aisle with a transeptal chapel, now a vestry, west tower, south porch. Perpendicular. Three-stage west tower, diagonal buttresses, pinnacles, embattled parapet, gargoyles, niches with figures, recessed stone spire with a band of blind arcading, 2-light bell-chamber windows with louvres; clock to south side; low turret to ringing chamber; 2-light west window, west door. Nave with a crenellated parapet with pinnacles, gargoyles; continuous over chancel; clerestory stage with 3-light cambered head windows, 3 to nave, one beyond the chancel arch. Aisle parapets with blind foiled niches, similar continuing over porch, meeting room and north chapel, further gargoyles. Four bay aisles with buttresses, large 3-light windows, north and south doorways; north aisle with a rood turret. South porch with a shafted C13 door opening. Meeting room with 2-light windows to first floor, barred openings to ground floor; chapel with 2 cusped lancets; small 3-light window to each side of chancel, 5-light east window. Particularly well furnished interior; plastered, flag floors; 5 bay arcade to north and south aisles, piers with 4 shaft-mouldings; tower arch of 3 recessed orders; chancel arch on corbels. C15 wagon roof to nave with bosses; restored lean-to roofs to aisles, that to south on elaborate corbels; C17 tie-bean roof to chancel on angel corbels; fan vault under tower, vestry with a ribbed tunnel vault. C14 piscina with a cusped head; entrance to rood loft; C19 stone reredos with a medieval tablet inset to each side. Much woodwork the gift of the Fortesque family, particularly the 2-tiered arcaded screen with attached paired readers, obelisk finials, strapwork, heraldic shields, and set over all the coloured archievenent of Stuart arms in a carved frame with a cornice and strapwork cresting; pulpit with a sounding board of 1616; many C17 box pews, further C15 pews with carved ends and poppy finials later altered to box pews. Stone tablet with archievment to north chancel wall; 3 futher C18 and 10 C19 monuments; 2 brasses to Bisse family in south aisle of 1606 and 1625. Octagonal lead-lined font, probably C14. Branch dated 1707, futher large C18 branch. C19 wooden plaque to north aisle commemorating 2 charities. Two C17 chairs and an elaborate chest. C19 stained glass to chancel and under tower, east window of south aisle of 1925 though some medieval glass to sub-lights. Peal of 6 bells, earliest 1613i organ dated 1837. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5906544414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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