Church of the Holy Cross
CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243604
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243604
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seend
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 94411 60928
Details
SEEND CHURCH LANE ST 9460 13/264 Church of the Holy Cross 19.3.62 GV I
Anglican parish church, mostly c1450 with C14 west tower and 1876 chancel, by A.J. Style. Ashlar with rubble stone to tower. Low- pitched lead roofs behind battlements. Tower, nave and aisles, north porch and chancel. Low 3-stage tower has C15 ashlar bell- stage with plain 2-light bell-openings, embattled parapet and corner pinnacles. Rubble stone earlier tower has 2-light former bell-openings, angle buttresses, small 2-light west window and chamfered pointed west door with flat hoodmould. Each side of window are a row of C18 arch-headed plaques under cornice, to Crook and Wyatt families, earliest date 1771. Nave has high clerestory with 4 large Perpendicular pointed windows each side, cornice with grotesque carved heads under pinnacles of embattled parapet. North aisle, rebuilt by John Stokys (d.1498) has large 3-light pointed Perpendicular windows, stepped buttresses carrying pinnacles and embattled parapet with grotesque carved bosses. Three-light east window and 4-light west window, the latter with carved clothiers shears in moulding inside and out, and apex crucifix, a rare survival. Large projecting 2-storey north porch, the upper part C18 with 3-light upper window, arched-headed beaded leaded lights and east side outside stairs to fielded panelled door. Moulded C15 doorway, Tudor-arched with hoodmould, and narrower moulded doorway inserted. Stone seats and C15 moulded inner doorway. Plainer south aisle, ashlar, embattled, with Perpendicular style west window of 1889 and flat-headed south windows, 3-light, probably of 1889, to left, then projection with door and 3-light over, probably altered 1889, then rubble stone walling with two C15 three-lights and moulded cornice. Three- light C15 pointed east window. Chancel has similar battlements and pinnacles, 2 south windows and 5-light Perpendicular style east window, all of 1876. Interior: north aisle has C15 five-bay timber roof with cambered tie-beams. Nave has 4-bay timber roof with moulded cambered tie- beams and arched braces on corbel heads. Two-chamfer C14 tower arch, dying into plain sides. Four-bay arcades with 4 shafts and 4 wave-mouldings. South aisle has C15 timber roof, two east bays, the 3 west bays C19. At east end, rood stair, emerging at south- east angle of nave under a carved corbel head. Moulded shafted chancel arch with traces of a painted rood above. Chancel has ornate late C19 Gothic stone reredos with marble shafts and panels. Tile mosaic panels each side. Fittings: chancel east window glass 1884. Two south side memorials to Lady M. Biscoe d.1762, in coloured marble and Vincent Biscoe d.1770. North side fine marble monument to G. Husey c1750 by Ford of Bath. Nave has ornate stone and marble pulpit c1890 with carved figures, fine brass candelabra from Melksham church, C15 octagonal stone font and elaborate west end memorial to Tipper family by R. Broad of Box, 1719. In tower arch are fragments of former west gallery dated 1706 and 1726. North aisle has west end brasses to John Stokys (d.1498) and his wife, east end C19 Gothic monuments to the Schomberg family and late C19 glass, north side windows, from west of c1910, 1891 and c1855 and various C19 monuments including Gothic one to Wadham Locke d.1835 by W. Osmond. South aisle has memorial to Wadham Locke d.1799 by T. King, and to Wadham Locke d.1841 by W. Osmond. (E. Bradby, The Church of the Holy Cross Seend 1985; N. Pevsner, Wiltshire 1975, 464-5)
Listing NGR: ST9441060927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bradby, E, The Church of the Holy Cross Seend, (1985)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 464 465
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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