Church of St Cecilia
CHURCH OF ST CECILIA, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302548
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cecilia
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CECILIA, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302548
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cecilia
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CECILIA, HIGH STREET
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 CECILIA, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Girton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 82536 66205
Details
SK 86 NW GIRTON HIGH STREET (east side)
3/77 Church of St. Cecilia 16.1.67 G.V. II
Parish Church: C13, C14, C15, rebuilt 1879 by Ewan Christian; coursed blue lias rubble with ashlar dressings, Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs, coped gables, 2 gable crosses, sanctus bellcote. Nave, chancel, south porch. Off centre C19 gabled timber porch, C14 chamfered doorway, flanked by 2 single lancets, central buttress with 2 setoffs; beyond, single C15 cusped lancet with trefoils in spandrels; single lancet to east. West end has 2 C14 lancets in splayed reveals; above, C19 circular window with geometrical tracery; single gable stack. Nave north side has single chamfered lancet, Tudor arched blocked opening; to east, one double and one triple lancet in square headed chamfered reveals. Chancel north side has C19 priest's door and single lancet; south side has C19 priest's door and C15 double lancet with plain hood mould. East window C19 triple lancet with curvilinear tracery. Interior has plain C19 fittings, octagonal font on broached octagonal stem, timber pulpit on stone base, memorial tablets 1851 and 1864, C19 arch-braced kingpost roof. Chancel arch C13 with half-pier responds with moulded capitals and water-holding bases. Common rafter roof with struts to collar beam.
Listing NGR: SK8253666205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242602
- 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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