Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264213
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264213
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, 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 MARTIN, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fiddington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 21568 40590
Details
ST24SW FIDDINGTON CP CHURCH ROAD (East side)
3/39 Church of St Martin
29.3.63
GV II*
Parish church. C11, C14, C15, restored 1860 by John Norton. Coursed and squared red sandstone rubble, some herringbone masonry to South wall of nave, tower roughcast, freestone dressings, slate roof, crested ridge, coped verges with cruciform finials. Decorated and Perpendicular styles; nave with a South porch, North aisle, chancel with a North vestry, West tower. Embattled 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to lower stages, small 2-light bell chamber windows; prominent clock to South side, coloured face, gilded hands and numerals. Two bay nave, 2-light windows; on the external South-East corner an incised Shiela-na-gig, a fertility goddess of C11 or C12; aisle of 3 bays all of 1860, 2-light Decorated style windows. Two bay chancel again with 2-light windows; 3-light East and West windows. Pilastered nave and chancel under unceiled wagon roofs of C15, aisle with lean-to roof; shafted lofty tower arch; simple chamfered chancel arch of 2 orders; 3 bay arcade to aisle on squat octagonal piers. C15 piscina. C15 bench ends. Jacobean pulpit on a C19 stone base; Font in a Perpendicular style, Jacobean cover; encaustic tiles to chancel; C19 organ. C19 stained glass; windows by Bell and Son of Bristol, 1912; A L Moore of London, 1901; Lavers, Bernard and Westlake of London, 1879. Three C19 tablets to chancel; plaque to tower screen commemorating 1860 alterations. C17 chest to North aisle; also in the North aisle a framed copy of the church plans by Norton. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST2156840590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268886
- 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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