Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243167
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243167
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
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 STEPHEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 99756 22541
Details
The following building shall be added:
COLWICH GREAT HAYWOOD SJ 92 SE 603-0/19/10005 Church of St Stephen II
Church. 1840 by T.Trubshaw; largely rebuilt 1858 by H.J.Stevens of Derby for patron the 2nd Earl of Lichfield. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone; graduated slate roofs. Nave and chancel in one with north vestry and west bellcote; separately-roofed south aisle having porches to south and to west end. Gothic Revival style: Perpendicular details. Plinth, offset buttresses. Nave and aisle lit by square-headed mullioned windows with cusped lights; traceried, pointed-arched windows to east and west gables, head- carved hoodmould stops; diamond-pane leaded lights. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings with apex crosses. Nave: north windows of 3, 2 and 5 lights; gabled vestry with 2-light window. Buttresses flank tall west window with panel tracery; buttressed bellcote. South aisle: windows 3,2 and 4 lights on left of gabled porch having colonettes to pointed arch. West porch has Tudor arch and parapet. 4-light east windows to aisle and chancel. Chancel also has 2 pointed windows to north with cusping and geometrical tracery. Interior: 4:1 bay Perpendicular arcade; moulded lozenge-section piers with colonettes. Ornate false hammer-beam trusses set on foliage-carved corbels which are doubled near the chancel. Octagonal stone font with traceried and quatrefoiled panels. 2 aisles with patterned and encaustic tiling. C19 oak pews - those of the Anson family (Earl of Lichfield) face north at east end of aisle. Nave has west organ chamber with Stringer organ of 1886. Monuments: 1914 alabaster cartouche near pulpit is to Thomas George, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (d 1892) and his family. Various wall monuments near Anson pews also a brass plaque in oakleaf architrave. At west end of aisle a brass plaque records the "liberality" of the 2nd Earl in'his patronage of the 1858 rebuilding.
Listing NGR: SJ9975622541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446528
- 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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