Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209813
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209813
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 10867 09313
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/01/2012
1094-1/3/241
SK10NW
06/03/70
LICHFIELD
CHRISTCHURCH LANE, Leomansley
(North side)
Christ Church
II*
Leomansley spelt Leamonsley on OS map.
Church. 1844-7. By Thomas Johnson. Transepts added 1886-7 by M
Holding. For Mrs Ellen Hinckley. Rock-faced stone with ashlar
dressings; fishscale tile roof.
Cruciform plan. Decorated style.
2-bay chancel with transepts; 3-bay nave with west tower.
Plinth, sill courses, plain coped parapets and coped gables;
gabled diagonal buttresses and window hoods with head stops.
Chancel has corbelled parapet; 3-light window with Flowing
tracery; similar 2-light north and south windows and adjacent
transept east windows; transept north and south windows of 3
lights with reticulated tracery, west projections have 2-light
north and south windows with geometrical tracery, entrances to
west.
North transept has pointed tomb recess with 3 cusped panels
over chest, to Samuel Seckham, creator of Park Town, Oxford,
and members of his family.
Nave has gabled buttresses and 2-light windows with
geometrical tracery; tower has west entrance with moulded arch
and paired doors, 3-light window with Flowing tracery; upper
lancet with clock face and 2-light louvred bell openings with
sill course; top traceried frieze and embattled parapet with
pinnacles.
INTERIOR: nave and chancel have pointed tunnel vaults, chancel
arch on responds and arches to transepts dying into jambs, as
do arches to transepts from nave; west end has gallery to
tower arch with 1887 ex-situ wrought-iron chancel screen.
Fittings: chancel has 1906 reredos by GF Bodley, lower
stencilled calvary cross, upper crucifixion and figures under
nodding ogee heads, vine trail cornice and rich brattishing;
octagonal timber pulpit with tracery panels; north transept
has timber altar, south transept has 1877 reredos to former
altar, applied arches with marble cross and shafts; nave has
encaustic tiles, octagonal font with squat stem and tracery
panels.
Painting: chancel roof painted 1897 by JD Batten, Old
Testament figures and symbols of Passion and Eucharist.
Memorial: war memorial to nave. Stained glass: 1920 east
window by Kempe and Tower; 1870s and 80s north and south
chancel windows and transept east windows by Hardman and Co,
also nave south windows; north transept 1894 north west window
by CE Kempe, 1901 north east window by HW Bryans, and 1889
nave window to General Phillips, by Hardman and Co.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.190; Shell Guides: Thorold H: Staffordshire, A Shell
Guide: London: 1978-: P.124-5; Clayton H: Cathedral City:
Lichfield: 1977-: P.7-8; Victoria History of the County of
Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.151-2).
Listing NGR: SK1086709313
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 151-2
Clayton, H, Cathedral City, (1977), 7-8
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 190
Thorold, H, Shell County Guides in Staffordshire, (1978), 124-5
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/217599
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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