CHURCH OF ST GREGORY

CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, SPARROW HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1295977
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, SPARROW HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1295977
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, SPARROW HILL

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 GREGORY, SPARROW HILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weare
National Grid Reference:: ST 41404 52684

Details

ST45SW WEARE CP SPARROW HILL (North side) UPPER WEARE

5/174 Church of St Gregory

9.2.61

GV I

Parish church. C11, C13, mainly C15, C19 restoration. Squared and coursed rubble, slate roof, coped verges with cruciform finials. Perpendicular. Nave, south porch, north aisle, chancel, west tower. Four-stage tower, corner buttresses, angle buttresses to top stage with offsets; blind 2-light windows to third stage, triple bell-chamber windows, blank to each side, centre with bell louvres; pinnacles, pierced parapet, stair turret, proainant gargoyles; 4-light west window with a crocketted niche to each side, west door. Three-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, 2 and 3-light square headed Perpendicular windows, 3-light C19 east window; C19 north aisle, 2-light windows. Interior: single chamfered Decorated chancel arch, aumbray, piscina with a foiled head. C19 roofs. Plain Norman font with scalloped base; C16 pews, the ends with plain thin poppey heads; pulpit dated 1617; south door in a chamfered semi-circular headed stone surround, probably C11, door dated 1755, adjacent in the porch a wooden bracket dated 1690. Brass to John Bedbere of the C15 set in floori elaborate choir stalls and lectern of 1909; wall monument to Edith Hooper of 1729, 3 further early C19 wall monuments, one by Wood of Bristol, one by W Pugh of Bristol; altar a C17 chest. Further C17 chest. All roofs restored, that to nave on corbels carved as figures. Fragments of C15 stained glass to north aisle windows and a south window of the nave.

Listing NGR: ST4140752684

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Legacy System number:: 268832
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.