Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303052
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303052
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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 ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76030 09069
Details
WHITMINSTER WHEATENHURST SO 70 NE 6/281 Church of St. Andrew 10.1.55 GV II* Small Anglican church. Cll foundation, earliest work probably of C14, altered and tower added late C15/early C16, north aisle added 1842, restored c1884-5 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Random coursed and dressed stone, ashlar tower and part ashlar walls, stone slate roof with coped east verges with saddlestones and cross finials. West tower, nave with south porch and north aisle, chancel, with north vestry of 1880s. Tower of 3 stages on moulded plinth with string courses, diagonal stepped buttresses up to top of second stage, embattled parapet with gargoyles and stair vice in north east corner projecting higher as embattled turret. Two-light stone louvred belfry lights on top stage with clock face to south; west side has long 2-light Decorated window over stepped cavetto moulded pointed archway with hoodmould. South porch probably of C15 with small diagonal buttresses flanking moulded pointed archway with sundial over, inner earlier doorway and door with fine original decorative iron hinging, flanking stone wall seats with trefoil squints to each side and stoup to right and Jacobean carved bosses and mouldings to wagon roof. Two-light flanking windows on nave, Perpendicular (with square hoodmould) to left and Decorated to right. Chancel has similar flanking small 3-centred priest's door with square hoodmould and initials PB in spandrels, probably for Priory of Bruton. C19 east window is 3-light Perpendicular, original now in north vestry. Three C19 Decorated 2-light on north side. Interior: 3-bay Decorated arcade of 1842. Ceilings panelled in late C19 when chancel arch renewed. Round arched chamfered entrance to rood stair probably of early C16 on south wall. Several good wall monuments including 2 in north aisle to Lloyd family (owners of Whitminster House, q.v., in C17) - Rebecca, 1625, in marble with small kneeling effigy, and Nathaniel, late C17, in painted stone. Jacobean pulpit. Remains of gilded reredos by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. (Buildings of England: Gloucestershire - the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980; V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol X, 1972)
Listing NGR: SO7603009069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
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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