Church of St David
Church of St David, Broadclose Way, Barton St David, Somerton, TA11 6BU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176035
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St David
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St David, Broadclose Way, Barton St David, Somerton, TA11 6BU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176035
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St David
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St David, Broadclose Way, Barton St David, Somerton, TA11 6BU
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 David, Broadclose Way, Barton St David, Somerton, TA11 6BU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barton St. David
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5397031708
Details
ST53SW
2/2
BARTON ST DAVID CP
BROADCLOSE WAY (south side)
Church of St David
17.4.59
GV
II*
Parish Church. C12 to C15, with major C19 restoration. Local lias stone cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings; plain clay tiled roofs between coped gables, with stone slates to north porch. Cruciform plan, chancel two bays, nave three bays, transepts one bay each, with added north porch and octagonal north east tower.
Chancel mostly C19, two bays; paired offset corner buttresses with small buttress under east window, which is three-light C14 traceried without label; in north wall small cinquefoil cusped lancet; to south double chamfered pointed arched doorway east of another cusped lancet. South transept rebuilt 1894; plinth, double corner buttresses; only a chimney to east; south window matches chancel east window. Nave has similar buttresses, with a two-light and a three-light elliptical arched, flat head windows
without labels, in south wall, also remains of blocked segmental arched doorway; four-light west window with C19 tracery of late C14 style; no windows north, north porch possibly C18; plain segmental outer arch; inner doorway C13 with single jamb shafts and open semi-circular arch with chevron and lozenge decoration, door at least C18. North transept has three-light ovolo mould mullioned window with flat head and label.
Tower octagonal, in three stages, probably C15; rendered with string courses, corner gargoyles, battlemented parapets; bottom stage has cinquefoil cusped-light in hollow moulded recess north face and hollow moulded pointed arched doorway to east; stage two has similar window again on north face; to principal quarters stage three are two-light C15 traceried windows in hollow moulded recesses.
Inside, chancel mostly C19; cusped rere-arches to windows, cinquefoil cusped piscina, and almost triangular headed long squint into tower; narrow C13 chancel and transept arches with simple chamfered pointed arches, jamb shafts with turned bases and capitals; with added segmental arched opening to south. Now mostly C19; octagonal-panelled pulpit with door and heavy cornice, early C17; C13 stone font on C19 base, a plain octagonal bowl with moulded underside and plain shaft to moulded plinth; fragment of C17 panelling in rear dado; over chancel arch a painting of King David with harp. Earliest recorded rector 1309.
Listing NGR: ST5397031708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262807
- 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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