Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1263926
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1263926
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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 MARY MAGDALENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clatworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 05262 30940
Details
ST03SE CLATWORTHY CP CLATWORTHY VILLAGE
6/47 Church of St any Magdalene
22.5.69
GV II
Parish church. Tower C12, rave rebuilt 1872, chancel rebuilt and tower altered 1860-83, Random rubble local stone, flat bedded in tower, Bath stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, decorative ridge tiles. West tower, 2-bay nave with north aisle, chancel and north-east vestry. Crenellated 2-stage tower with buttresses to east front only, string course, louvred lancet bell-openings, string course cut by voussoirs of earlier window opening, 3-light C19 west window below; stepped buttress rising to lancet, C19 porch, moulded semi-circular arched entrance with hood mould, moulded pointed arch inner doorway with square hole in left jamb, remains of piece of unidentified medieval stonework in porch, C19 roof and panelled door, 3-light window right, hoodmould with face terminals as on other windows, gabled top to buttress at junction with chancel, two 2-light windows, 3-light east window, chamfered semi-circular headed doorway to vestry probably reset, 2 lancets on north front, two 2-light windows to nave, one at west end where aisle wall incorporates tower buttress. Interior rendered. C19 chancel arch with corbelled inner arch, similar to tower. C19 scissor truss roots, wall plate in chancel, lean-to roof in aisle. C19 fittings including good brass lectern with sconces, possibly by Hardman of Birmingham. (Kelly's Directory, 1914; Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST0526230940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1914)
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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