CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKETT
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175680
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKETT, PYLLE LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKETT, PYLLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Mendip (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pylle
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60706 38334
Details
ST63NW PYLLE CP PYLLE LAKE (North side)
8/176 Church of St Thomas a Beckett
2.6.61
GV II*
Anglican Parish Church. Rebuilt 1868 for Portman familly, except C15 tower. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone
dressings, tile roofs with fish-tail banding, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave, chancel, south porch, north
vestry, west tower. Three stage Perpendicular tower with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet with pinnacles, 2-light
bell chamber windows with a quatrefoil interlace, 2-light windows repeating on the stage below on the south and west
sides; ashlar turret to north side with a spirelet; 3-light west window, west door with a label. Remainder in free
Early English style; 4-bay nave with 2-light windows, 2 bay chancel with lancets, 3-light east window. Plastered
interior; encaustic tile floor to chancel, some fine tiling to walls in terracotta, tile reredos, arch-braced king post
roofs, that to chancel on reused C15 corbels. Perpendicular tower arch; shafted chancel arch. C11 tub font with chevron
banding. Bier dated 1740. C18 tablet to nave by T King of Bath; 2 C19 tablets. Some stained glass of C19 to chancel,
east window of The Crucificion. Ringing chamber gallery under tower.
Listing NGR: ST6070638334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267649
- 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.
End of official listing