CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237571
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237571
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH 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:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wembdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 28933 37958

Details

ST23NE WEMBDON CP CHURCH ROAD (North side)

8/88 Church of St George

29.3.63

GV II

Parish church. C14, C15, substantially rebuilt excluding tower 1868 by J M Hay, some minor C20 external alterations. Local red sandstone rubble, freestone dressings, double Roman tile roof with 2 small flat-roofed dormers above the chancel arch with leaded lights, coped verges with some cruciform finials, pyramidal tile roof to vestry. Early features all Perpendicular, restoration in Decorated style. Nave, chancel, North and South aisles, South porch, virtually detached heated South vestry, North chancel chapel now occupied by the organ, West tower. Simple embattled tower with angle buttresses, 2-light bell-chamber windows, 3-light West window, West door, Five bay nave, 3-light windows in shafted surrounds; single bay chancel with a large 4-light South window, 3-light East window. North aisle arcade with circular piers; that to South aisle with hexagonal piers. Plain chamfered chancel arch of 2 orders, above it a painted text; tower arch of 2 orders, head supported on corbels. Nave with a simple tie-beam roof, lean-to roofs to aisles, vaulted plaster ceiling to chancel; tower with a C15 ring chamber floor. Interior refurbished C19 including pews and pulpit, encaustic tiles to chancel, reredos with mosaic panels, glazed tiles to walls, Restored C15 octagonal font; piscina to vestry believed to be re-used font of c950. Much stained glass, particularly the East window of 1890, and West window of 1903. C18 tablet under tower, further C19 tablet. Restored Jacobean communion table to South aisle; also a life-sized painting of The Crucifiction by Guido Reni, 1575-1672. (Church Guide, Rev C Rayner-Smith, 1960; Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST2893337958

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

Legacy System number:: 268938
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Smith, Reverend C R, Church of St George Wembdon Church Guide, (1960)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.