Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1175656
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1175656
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY
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 THOMAS OF CANTERBURY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cothelstone
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 18139 31846
Details
ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP
3/89 Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
25.2.55
GV I
Parish Church. Some C12 and C13 work, mainly C15, restored circa 1864. Red sandstone with limestone and Ham stone dressings, tiled roofs. Nave 2 bay South aisle, South porch, West tower, heated vestry North of chancel. 3-stage tower, Victorian addition of crenellated parapet between original finials below 3 square headed openings and string course, Decorated 2-light bell-openings, diagonal buttresses, stair turret with cornical stone spire in North-east corner. 2-light Perpendicular windows in South front, 3-light at East end and North-west end of nave, 4-light to North-east. Porch with moulded pointed arch, piscina inside, pointed arch doorway into nave. Interior: rendered. Norman pillar in South aisle with Perpendicular arcades, Western respond a moulded corbel circa 1200. Good carved bench ends C16. Very fine Perpendicular octagonal font with traces of paint and early C17 carved wooden pulpit with contemporary wooden 3 bay arcade forming lecturn. Painted and gilded stone tablets in chancel, on right to John Stawell died 1661 with split pediment, putti and apron, simpler version to left John Stawell died 1603. In South chapel two fine tombs; Sir Mathew de Stawell, died 1379, and his wife Elizabeth, the latter has 2 squirrels at her feet and an angel at her head, York stone with traces of colour; Sir John Stawell, died 1603, and his wife, in alabaster. Fragments of good medieval painted glass with figures of saints in the upper lights of the South aisle windows and at South-west end of nave. (West and North windows by Clayton and Bell, 1865.) A fine collection of fittings and memorials in a largely unaltered interior. (SANHS Proceedings vol 44, 1898; G Stanwell, History of a Quantock Family, 1910) photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1813931847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stawell, G, History of a Quantock Family, (1910)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1898)
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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