Church of St Olave
CHURCH OF ST OLAVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292758
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Olave
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OLAVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292758
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Olave
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OLAVE
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 OLAVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chillerton and Gatcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 49240 85094
Details
GATCOMBE
SZ48NE GATCOMBE
1353-0/1/94 CHURCH OF ST OLAVE
18/01/67
I
Parish church. Nave and south porch C13, Tower added C15,
Chancel rebuilt in 1864 and belfry added in early C20. Nave
and south porch built of greensand rubble, chancel of coursed
greensand rubble, tower of greensand ashlar. Tiled roof,
except for South porch which is of stone slabs. Nave, chancel,
south porch, west tower and south west vestry. West Tower of 3
stages with offset buttresses and bands between stages. Bell
stage has bell openings of double lancets with pierced
screens. Crenellated parapet with water spouts. West window is
traceried having 3 triple arches with lancets above. South
porch is gabled with stone coping, kneelers and grotesque mask
saddlestone with cross above. Pointed arched doorway. Roof of
reused timbers from H.M.S. Thunderer, a warship which fought
at Trafalgar, reused in 1910. Nave has buttresses and 2 C15
windows with double cinquefoil-headed lights below and four
trefoil-headed lights above. Lancet window in centre of
buttresses. Coping at gable end. C19 decorative ridge tiles.
North side has triangular buttresses, one elaborate C15 window
and 2 cinquefoil headed lights. Chancel is of 2 bays with 2
trefoil-headed windows, plinth and band. C19 cross-shaped
saddlestone. East window of 3 arches with 3 circles above and
drip moulding. Vestry is early C20 of greensand coursed rubble
with hipped tiled roof and mullioned windows. Interior: West
tower has tierceron star roof with centre opening for bell
ropes. Font of Purbeck marble, an octagonal bowl with 2 flat
blank arches to each side and 1 late C18 and 1 early C19
marble wall plaque. Nave of 4 bays. C19 roof boarded with
double row of through purlins and arched braces. Chest tomb to
C. Grant Seely d.1917 with recumbant effigy of young soldier
by Sir Thomas Brock. Nave south window has original fragments
of medieval stained glass (angels). Chancel arch C13 with
pointed arch on octagonal piers, flanked by C20 pointed
arches. Roof of c.1865, an arch-braced boarded roof with
through purlins. Piscina and triple C19 sedillia. Credence
table and Jacobean altar. South wall has very fine early C14
oak effigy of a knight, cross legged with a lion at his feet
and angel at his head, the face and angel recut by village
craftsmen. Very fine C19 glass, the east window the Last
Supper and the two Marys at the Sepulchre and the Ascension in
the north wall by William Morris, the Crucifixion in the East.
window by Rossetti and the Entombment in the East window by
Ford Madox Brown and the Lamb and Angels in the East window
and the Baptism in the South wall by Burne Jones.
(B.O.E. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: 745).
Listing NGR: SZ4924085094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 745
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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