Church of St Christopher
CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1262678
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Christopher
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1262678
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Christopher
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER, 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 CHRISTOPHER, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3351954166
Details
ST35SW
5/74
9.2.61
LYMPSHAM CP
CHURCH ROAD (East side)
Church of St Christopher
GV
I
Parish Church. C15, much C19 restoration by Rev. A J Stephenson and his son J H Stephenson. Coursed and squared rubble,
slate and lead roofs, coped verges with cruciform finials. Perpendicular. Nave, chancel, North aisle, South chapel now
vestry, West tower. Four stage tower with set back buttresses, pinnacles, twin bell chamber windows, two tiers of
niches to West side, West door, West window; pierced and arcaded parapet. Further pierced parapet to North aisle and
South chapel, nave and chancel with 2-light windows. Panelled tower arch, small carved figure set on each corbel. Three
bay nave with a wagon roof of C19 springing from corbel carved as heads, probably Perpendicular; lower entrance to
rood. 4-bay North aisle of c1400, restored 1840; arcade with piers of 4 waves section; wall shafts on leaf corbels;
panelled lean-to roof, much restored niche to North wall in a gabled and crocketted surround; on East wall a C11 stone
Crucifix obviously reused; a piscina under a foil arch; remains of a squint. Much restored single bay chancel with an
early C19 turrel-vault plaster ceiling on corbels carved as heads, again probably Perpendicular. Numerous texts
stencilled in black letter around window openings, along walls and around arches. Painted Norman tub font again with a
text, Jacobean cover. C17 painted royal arms. Chandelier of 1744. Remainder of the furniture of the C19 including choir
stalls, pews, pulpit, lectern, altar rail, 2 chairs in a gothic style, large brass chandelier. C19 western gallery.
Fifteen C19 wall monuments, some in brass, those to Stephenson family in vestry in a particularly elaborate style;
further monument to The Fallen of the Great War. Much C19 stained glass; East window by O'Connor of 1863; 5 further
stained glass windows. C19 Western gallery. C19 painting of Christ. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West
Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST3351954166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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