CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS

CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, FLATS 1-11, NEWCOMEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297098
Date first listed:: 03-May-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, FLATS 1-11, NEWCOMEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297098
Date first listed:: 03-May-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, FLATS 1-11, NEWCOMEN ROAD

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 BARNABAS, FLATS 1-11, NEWCOMEN ROAD

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County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Dartmouth
National Grid Reference:: SX 87787 51025

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2012

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DARTMOUTH NEWCOMEN ROAD (West side) Flats 1-11, Church of St Barnabas

(Formerly listed as No.33 Church of St Barnabas)

GV II

Former chapel of ease to St Petrox, now used as a Hostel for the Homeless, Junk Emporium, with Craft Workshops. Nave and aisles, 1831 by Joseph Lidstone, architect, with east end of 1884 by George H Birch, architect. Older work of limestone rubble with freestone dressings, later work of snecked limestone with Bathstone detail; slate roof. PLAN: Aisled nave, linked twin turrets at the crossing, and polygonal apse. Built on a terrace above the road. There is a wooden verandah sheltering the steps leading up to the church below the apse. Various vestry and parish rooms each side of the chancel, single-storey to south, 2-storey with rear stack to north. EXTERIOR: Front, the east end, in French neo-Romanesque style. Square twin turrets with open arcades below spires are linked by an open arcade (as at Auvergne). Polygonal apse in front with a lancet to each facet, all linked by continuous hoodmould and string course at sill level. Timber verandah below, Gothic with trefoil arches. To right, ground-floor window with Y-tracery below 2 lancets with hoodmoulds. To left, east window of south aisle is 2 lights with Y-tracery. 4 bays each side with tall 2-light windows with simple tracery and similar 3-light window in west end. West end gable has castellated parapet from 1831. INTERIOR: Relatively plain. 4-bay arcades to the aisles, square columns of painted brick with nailhead ornament to capitals. Aisles have boarded flat ceilings and nave roof also boarded and carried on king post trusses. Tall stone chancel arch springing from moulded corbels. Ribbed chancel roof boarded between. Plastered walls with plain panelled wainscotting in aisles. Stone-flag floor to nave and aisles and parquet floor to chancel. Aisle windows contain patterns of opaque leaded glass but west window and chancel windows contain C19 stained glass. A low stone wall as chancel screen. FITTINGS: All C19. Timber screen against west wall, arcaded with Gothic ornament, has painted texts and Commandments. Plain, somewhat altered, timber gallery in south aisle, infilled below. Stone font in Perpendicular style with clustered column stem to octagonal bowl, quatrefoils on its sides carved with leafy motifs. Remnants of timber pulpit and various plain pine benches. MONUMENTS: Single small, plain marble wall plaque in south aisle. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: P.324).

Listing NGR: SX8778651038

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Legacy System number:: 387307
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 324

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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.