Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH, MARTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302192
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH, MARTLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302192
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRISTCHURCH, MARTLEY 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:
- 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:
- Lower 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.
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