CHRISTCHURCH
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302192
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH, MARTLEY ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH, MARTLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadheath
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81062 57251
Details
SO 85 NW BROADHEATH CP MARTLEY ROAD
(north-east side)
4/1 Christchurch
II
Parish church. 1903-4 by C Ford Whitcombe on new site. Sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings and tiled roofs. 2 bay chancel, 4 bay nave and south
aisle passage, south porch intersects with west tower and incorporates stair
turret base to tower, stair turret to south east. Decorated style; also
Arts and Crafts influence evident in fittings. Chancel has sloping corner
buttresses; 3-light east window, cusped lancets the hood moulds of which
return and continue as string course; arched doorway in north elevation.
Nave: sloping buttresses at corners and bay divisions; slit window in
angles with chancel, otherwise flat-headed openings and cusped lancets; parapet
with moulded coping between nave and south aisle roofs. Gabled south porch has
ogee-arched doorway, the hood mould returning to form string course; wrought-
iron gates; sundial carved above doorway, parapet with moulded coping.
West tower: 3 stages, each having string course; corner buttresses with
tiled offsets; lower stage of north elevation has paired 2-light flat-headed
windows, cusped lancets to both north and south elevations beneath lower
string; arched west doorway flanked by flat-headed cusped lancets beneath
string; wrought iron clock face to second stage elevations; bell-chamber stage
has ogee-arched 2-light openings, hood moulds with returns and rising as half
columns to the parapet string, terminating in foliated capitals. Traceried
parapet, crocketted corner finials and corner gargoyles; pyramidal roof and
ship weathervane. Stair tower has slit windows, string course and gargoyle,
and parapet with moulded coping. Interior: Chancel arch responds of 3 grouped
shafts; arcade has octagonal piers and are compound pier at upper end; wagon
roofs; octagonal font; piscina with quatrefoil-shaped basin; reredos and altar
rails of carved vines; stained glass in east and north window of chancel and
3 windows of nave, all early C20. Stairs to turret in porch have iron balusters
of similar design to hinges found throughout building.
Listing NGR: SO8106257251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
