Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261202
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261202
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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 ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heddington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99928 66205
Details
ST 96 NE HEDDINGTON CHURCH ROAD
5/127 Church of St. Andrew
20.12.60
GV II*
Anglican parish church, C13 to C15 with alterations possibly of C16 and C17, restored 1840-1 and 1976. Ashlar and rubble stone with stone slate roofs. West tower, nave and aisles, north porch, chancel and north east vestry. C15 battlemented 3-stage tower with higher north stair-tower, moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses to first stage, dripcourses and angle pinnacles. Three-light Perpendicular west window over 4-centred arched moulded door, clock face to second stage and 2-light bell-openings. Ashlar north aisle possibly c1700 on earlier plinth. Moulded cornice, parapet, 2 tall 4-light flat-headed windows and angle buttresses. Central C15 coped gabled porch with moulded plinth, moulded eaves, diagonal buttresses and moulded pointed north doorway with canopied niche over. Angle finials and apex cross to gable. C14 moulded inner doorway. South side has 2 large hipped dormers, C17 rebuilt 1976 and roof carried down over part-rendered south aisle with 3 flat- headed C16 or C17 three-light windows. Chancel has no moulded plinth, C15 pointed 2-light window to north and C15 flat-headed 2- light to south. Another 2-light south window similar to south aisle. Four-centred 3-light east window, Perpendicular style but without cusping. North east vestry is gabled with C16 three-light to north wall. Interior: 1976 nave and south aisle roofs by Wyvern Design Group with pine trusses, moulded Cl5 tower arch, C13 three-bay south arcade of round piers and C14 three-bay north arcade with octagonal piers. Round arched chancel arch renewed c1840 with applied timber nailhead moulding. Plastered chancel roof. North chamfered arch to vestry. All windows with C20 leading except east window with C19patterned glass. Late C18 organ. Norman style font, possibly original remoulded c1840. Chancel wall plaques of 1669 and 1836 by E.H. Baily and vestry plaque of 1610. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 265-6; R.J. Cole, A history of Heddington and its church n.d.)
Listing NGR: ST9992866205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cole, RJ, A History of Heddington and its Church, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 265-6
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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