CHRIST CHURCH

CHRIST CHURCH, MAIN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224123
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224123
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH, MAIN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, MAIN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Long Load
National Grid Reference:: ST 46492 23177

Details

Christ Church, Main Road. 9/129 3/129

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Christ Church, Main Road. 9/129 3/129

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9/129 Christ Church

19.4.61

GV II

Anglican Parish Church. 1854-6, by C E Giles, replacing chapel first recorded 1418. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; bands of plain and scalloped clay tiles between stepped coped gables with cross finials. Two-cell plan of 2-bay chancel and 5-bay nave, with south porch and lean-to north-east vestry and spirelet. In a C13 revival style. Chancel has plinth, cill course, double corner buttresses; east window 3-light Geometric traceried under pointed arched label with unworked steps; south windows a single and a 2-light to match: vestry has 2 small cusped lancets in east wall, plain to north, and ponited arched doorway with curl stop lable in west wall, decorated chimney off north wall of chancel wall, which has a 2-light window west of vestry. Nave has details to match, with bay buttresses and 2-light geometric traceried windows in north and south walls, and a sub-arcuated 4-light west window. South porch has a C13 style moulded outer arch in gable, and simpler arch inside. Spirelet on north-east corner of nave, on octagonal base with plinth, stepped offsets just above eaves level, then a lancet with tracery infill to each face, finally a stepped stone steeplet with iron cross finials. Interior not accessible at time of survey (July 1985) - Pevsner says nothing of interest inside but VCH refers to the Jacobean pulpit which survives from the former chapel (VCH, Vol IV, 1978; Pevsner, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST4649223177

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 420096
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (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.