Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, TADPOLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184208
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, TADPOLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184208
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, TADPOLE LANE
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 ANDREW, TADPOLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Andrews
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 13612 89696
Details
1. 5410 BLUNSDON ST ANDREW TADPOLE LANE Church of St Andrew SU 18 NW 7/90 26.1.55
II*
2. Mediaeval traces. Practically rebuilt by Butterfield 1868. Small country church of rubble with red tile roof. C15 style grafted on early English. Chancel, nave and south aisle, west bell turret with 2 bells and odd spirelet. Three bay nave with central gabled porch to north with quatrefoil vent and trefoil heads to side buttresses. Hollow chamfered surround to pointed doorway (possibly C13), wrought iron strap hinges. A 2 and a 3-light square headed Perpendicular style window with mouchette heads. Plain ashlar dressed paired lights to lower later 2 bay chancel with gabled organ vestry to north. Three light geometrical east window (with, inside, a foiled 'rere-arch' - in fact foiled reveal). The west front appears to be a different build: rough-faced rubble with ashlar bands. Central belfry break with 2 foiled openings and crenellated parapet to nipped roof; small octagonal spirelet and weathervane; this break is linked by wall thickening and buttress to small door to south-west with Caernarvon arch. Foiled vesca-shape opening to right. Boiler house and chimney to south-west. Interior: reused plain circa 1200 doorway (now a niche). Low 3 bay arcade, C13. Butterfield reredos, altar-rails, sedilia and pews retained. Nave roof: king post type with foiled braces. Rubble churchyard wall to south and to west, gabled doorway formerly entrance from Abbey. Numerous mediaeval fragments - sculpted stones, mediaeval tiles and some traces of an arcade found during work of 1868, indicating a later church in the Middle Ages.
Listing NGR: SU1361289696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318249
- 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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