Church of St Thomas By Launceston
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS BY LAUNCESTON, RIVERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas By Launceston
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS BY LAUNCESTON, RIVERSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas By Launceston
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS BY LAUNCESTON, RIVERSIDE
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 THOMAS BY LAUNCESTON, RIVERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 32793 85062
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX3285 RIVERSIDE, St Thomas 660-1/3/230 Church of St Thomas-by-Launceston 27/02/50
GV II*
Priory church. Norman font; 1482 on site of former Augustine Priory (qv), restored 1871. Dressed volcanic stone, greenstone and granite; dry Delabole slate roofs with central ventilators; octagonal stone stack to west gable of S, aisle and moulded stack to N gable of transept. Plan: nave/chancel; west tower; south aisle and south porch C19 north transept. North wall rebuilt and the whole re-roofed in 1871. Slender 2-stage unbuttressed embattled tower with slate louvres to upper stage; strings and squat leper window in position of usual west doorway. C15 three-light traceried windows to chancel; 3 to S wall of S aisle and 5-light window to west of aisle, otherwise C19 traceried windows except for 3-light N transept window with segmental-arched lights; roodstair projecting to S wall left of moulded basket-arched priests doorway. Porch has crucifix finial to coped end over square hood to C15 doorway; carved fragments including Catherine wheel right of doorway. INTERIOR: plastered walls with fragment of wall painting at east end; C15 five-bay Standard A (Pevsner) arcade: 1871 arch-braced, wind-braced roofs; trefoil-headed aumbry to S wall of chapel in S aisle. Fittings: large Norman font with square bowl, octagonal shaft and round base; some old coloured glass; early C16 linenfold screens to tower and inside S door; earliest bell 1745, recast 1911; C19 carved octagonal pulpit and other C19 fittings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cornwall: 1953-1970: P.98).
Listing NGR: SX3279385062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370056
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 98
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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