Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1305341
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1305341
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churcham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76859 18204
Details
SO 71 NE CHURCHAM CHURCH LANE
11/15 Church of St. Andrew
23.9.55
GV II*
Parish church; C12, 14/15C, 1878: Nave and tower random rubble, with large, squared quoins: chancel mixed squarish and flat stone, with ashlar buttresses: tiled roof to nave, shingles to spire, slates to chancel. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Tower in 3 stages, marked by slight offsets in wall: 4 lancets, lower 3 round-headed, top pointed. Above shingled gables on each face, with a helm roof above, terminating in an iron cross. Louvred, 2-light square-headed openings in each gable. Nave: gabled porch off- centre to left: pointed arch to opening, hoodmould with floriate stops, wrought-iron gates. Parapet gable, with cube set diagonally on apex, as sundial, gnomon on 3 faces; ball finial. 2-light windows in side walls. Porch covers south door, semi-circular moulded arch on C19 columns within C19 trefoil-head to doorway, with plain tympanum. Low, plain plinth to rear; to left of porch 3-light Perpendicular window, like all on south side without hoodmould. Jamb of blocked opening to right visible over porch roof. To right of porch 2-light reticulated-tracery window, with, to its left, jamb and part of arch of C12 window, surviving stones moulded, capital with volute. Gable parapets, apex cross at east end. Plain plinth to chancel, diagonally-set buttress at east end. 2-light geometric tracery window on left, boarded priest's door just right of centre, no hoodmould. North door to nave C19 rebuild of C12 opening; above a carved stone, said to be C3 A.D., a standing figure, arms raised as in prayer, circles with 4 spokes to left and right, all under a curved arch. Interior, plain plaster to walls. Wide, semi-circular arch to tower, springing from abacus. Chancel arch 2 columns each side with cushion capitals, moulded arches above. 3-bay roof, crown- post trusses on wall posts, with braces, half trusses between. Chancel, eastern end late C19 Jacobean-style panelling to 2 m: open, scissor-braced rafter roof. Octagonal stone font, 1884; leaves to bowl, supported on grotesques, with cinquefoil-headed panelling to stem, leaves and flowers on base. Two C18 wall monuments, 2 Norman revival wall monuments in chancel, 1842 and 1843. Plain piscina by pulpit in nave. Heavily restored by Waller and Son in 1878 following a fire. Forms group with Churcham Court. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).
Listing NGR: SO7685918204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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