Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, SWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1249584
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, SWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1249584
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, SWELL 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 ST CATHERINE, SWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fivehead
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 36929 23591
Details
ST32SE FIVEHEAD CP SWELL LANE (Eastside, off) HIGHER SWELL
4/64 Church of St. Catherine
17.4.59
GV I
Anglican church. C12, C15, C16. Rubble core, roughcast, slate roof, coped verges, 2 with bases for finials. Mainly Perpendicular, Nave, Chancel, south porch. Three bay nave, 2-light windows with simple tracery, 4-light east window, elaborate tracery. Two bay chancel, simple 2-light windows, traceried east window. Two large 3-stage buttresses to south of nave, one of banded Ham stone and ashlar, the other roughcast, 4 similar buttresses to the north. Simple gabled south porch, chamfered outer door opening with early graffiti. Inside of porch benched on a flagstone floor, Norman inner doorway, semi-circular head with Arabesque decoration, colonettes. Interior plastered on flagstone floors, nave with a ceiled wagon roof with ribs and booses, chancel with a ceiled wagon roof; panelled chancel arch. Two niches with ornamental heads flanking east window. C16 pews, some restored. Octagonal Norman Font, Laudian alter rails. Fine pulpit dated 1634, strapwork decoration, cornice; part of this pulpit also reused as a reader, Piscina with a cusped head and bowl. Aumbrey with C19 door, C17 poor box, C17 chest. Fragments of medieval stained glass remains to lights of all windows. Two small C16 brass plaques to floor with texts.
Listing NGR: ST3692823589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431759
- 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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