Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180147
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/01539/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180147
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wookey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49335 45435
Details
ST44NE WOOKEY CP WELLS ROAD (North side) HEWTON 9/174 Christ Church
GV II
Anglican church. 1847 by B Ferrey. Coursed and squared rubble, sill band, 2-stage buttresses, stone eaves cornices, slate roofs, coped verges, one with a cruciform finial, gabled ashlar bellcote. Nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry; Early English style. Four bay nave, 2-light traceried windows, lancets and circular opening in gable face at west end; pointed arch west doorway with bold keel moulding, paired doors with scrolly iron hinges. Gabled porch, elaborately moulded outer door opening with a trefoil head, paired doors with scrolly iron hinges. Two bay chancel, lancets, priest's door, 4-light east window, bar tracery; window and door openings with dripstones terminated by characteristic ornamental masks. Plastered interior on flagstone and encaustic tile floors. Nave with well-modelled hammer-beam roof, chancel with arch-braced roof. Two Jacobean chairs and 2 coffin stools. C19 font, pews, pulpit, choir stalls, altar rails, reredos and an organ dated 1865. Simple stained glass except east window, Our Lord Crowned in Majesty, 1905 by Alfred Hemming of London, and north window to nave of 1918. Plaque commemorating grants to build the church at west end. Bell from bellcote at rear of nave at time of survey (August 1985). (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4933545435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268187
- 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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