Church of St Birinus
CHURCH OF ST BIRINUS, MORGANS VALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Birinus
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BIRINUS, MORGANS VALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Birinus
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BIRINUS, MORGANS VALE 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 BIRINUS, MORGANS VALE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redlynch
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 19865 21072
Details
REDLYNCH MORGANS VALE ROAD SU 12 SE (west side) 4/218 Church of St. Birinus
II
Anglican parish church. 1894 by C.E. Ponting. Brick, various bonds, tiled roof. Arts and Crafts Free Gothic. Nave, chancel, north organ chamber and vestry, south west porch, west tower. Timber-framed porch on brick plinth to left of south side, nave to right has four round-arched Perpendicular-style 4-light windows recessed in brick arches, buttresses between are carried up to gablets, buttress to right has hipped gablet with niche and statue of St. Birinus. South side of chancel has two round-arched 3-light Perpendicular style windows in brick arches. East window has segmental-arched 5-light window with reticulated tracery with transoms, ogee hoodmould, deep gable. North side has organ chamber under catslide roof, loop-hole windows. North side of nave has four 4-light windows as to south side. Vestry to right has gabled roof, 3-light leaded fixed window. West tower is timber-framed with 5-light wooden mullioned and transomed window, coved eaves cornice with carved wooden brackets to wooden eaves with carved rosettes and date 1894, shingled pyramidal roof with louvred bellstage. Interior; double wooden doors in segmental brick arches with gauged brick cornices and pilasters facing across west end of nave, to porch and vestry. Nave has barrel-vaulted roof with rib panelling. Fielded panelling to walls up to sill level. Segmental brick arch to tower from nave. Chancel has barrel-vaulted ceiling with more elaborate rib panelling than nave. Brick arched piscina on south side of nave. Limestone reredos. Cylindrical stone font at west end of nave. Fine Arts and Crafts stained glass in east window depicting the life of Christ, in memory of the Ferryman family c1900, glass in north window of nave to Robinsons of Redlynch House c1900; both windows unsigned. Built as a chapel of ease to Church of St. Lawrence, Downton. It cost £2200 to build. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975; Kelly's Directory, Wiltshire, 1907).
Listing NGR: SU1986521072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Kellys Directory in Wiltshire, (1907)
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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