CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1262914
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1262914
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge
National Grid Reference:: ST 30438 49408

Details

ST34SW BURNHAM-ON-SEA CP VICTORIA STREET (West side)

8/51 Church of St. Andrew

17.2.49

GV I

Parish Church. C14, C15, C19. Coursed and squared rubble, lead and slate roofs, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave with a South porch and a South chapel, West tower, North aisle, chancel with a vestry. Mainly Perpendicular. South chapel c1315 when church 'funditur', 2-light South window, each light with a cinquefoiled head, below it 2 cinquefoiled tomb recesses, effigies removed. Also early C14 the South doorway and door, the latter reused on the porch; adjacent the doorway a contemporary stoup with a finial. Late C14 tower with set-back buttresses, battlements, topping stair turret, 2-light bell chamber windows; 4-light West window; contemporary the tower arch with wave mouldings; that to South chapel similar. The nave of late C14/early C15 much remodelled, 3 bays, 3-light windows; 5 bay North aisle all of 1838, galleried, in a Perpendicular style, parapet with battlements. Chancel arch also rebuilt 1838; chancel remodelled 1878; 2-light windows, 3-light East window. Salient interior feature the remains of the Whitehall Altar; commissioned 1686 by James II from Grinling Gibbons and Quellin for the chapel of Whitehall Palace. Removed to Westminster Abbey c1710, and to Burnham c1820; dismembered late C19 to form a reredos; 3 cherubs removed to North aisle, the large flanking angels on pedestals now under the tower. Furniture includes a much remodelled Jacobean pulpit; branch of 1773, C19 pews, choir stalls, font and altar rail; organ of 1885 by Vowles of Bristol. Tablet of 1598 under the tower to Austin Bord; 5 further C19 wall monuments, the most elaborate to Reed family in the nave. Lean- to roof to North aisle; barrel roof to nave; arch-braced roof to chancel. Some remains of medieval glass to South-West window of nave; remainder of stained glass C19. Remains of a pre-reformation altar stone to the South chapel, roused in the C19 as a grave stone. Three painted plaques to the vestry commemorating local charities of the C17/C18. Jacobean communion table, Jacobean chair. C18 painting of Christ to North aisle. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST3043749409

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Legacy System number:: 433731
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.