Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1177825
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1177825
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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 LAWRENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Priddy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52828 51385
Details
ST55SW PRIDDY CP PRIDDY VILLAGE
6/80 Church of St Lawrence
22.11.66 I
Anglican Parish Church. C13, C14, C15, restored 1881-88. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, coped verges with cruciform finials, lead sheeting roofs. Nave, chancel, north aisle, north and south transepts, south porch, north and south chancel chapels, west tower. Perpendicular. Three stage tower, diagonal buttresses with offsets; pierced parapet; bold corner pinnacles, and intermediate pinnacles all renewed 1705; simple 2-light bell chamber windows with louvres, on south side with plate tracery; 2-light west window, west door. Porch with parapet and coping, gargoyles, shafted outer door opening, benched inside on flagstone floor, niches for former statuary, shafted stoup. Similar parapets and copings to porch continuing over transepts and chapels on north and south sidesi 2 and 3-light windows in a variety of Perpendicular styles, some with square heads, some labels, in chancel early C14 lancet windows. Priests door to south chapel. Interior plastered on flag stone, wood block and tile floors. C19 roofs, to nave and chancel wagon, to aisle and chapels panelled lean-to. Aisle with stone bench to wall. North aisle arcade of 2:1 bays, piers to west of 4-clustered shafts, pier to east broad and chamfered; simple archway between aisle and north chapel. Broad archways to north and south chancel chapels, the former panelled, the latter shafted; south transept with broad shafted archway, stone benches. Triple chamfered tower arch without capitals; broad panelled chancel arch. Norman tub font; C19 cover in medieval style. Some C14 corbels carved as heads to nave and aisle. Good C15 rood and parclose screens. C13 grave cover with foliated cross re-used to form rere-arch in the chancel. Remains of niche adjacent to east window. Unusual C15 stone pulpit, probably formed by the remains of the rood stair. Jacobean altar table, pulpit and chest. Cl9 pews, screen, choir stalls, altar rails, lectern and organ. C18 and C19 memorial tablets to aisle. Incised Commandments adjacent to east window. Under tower a plaque marking restoration in 1705. Framed C15 altar frontal. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5282551386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (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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