Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306637
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306637
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FORE 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 BARTHOLOMEW, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yealmpton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 57776 51701
Details
SX5751 YEALMPTON FORE STREET 11/208 (south side) 29/3/60 Church of St Bartholomew
GV II*
Parish church. Rebuilt in 1850 by William Butterfield. Tower of 1915. Coursed stone and ashlar, with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. Decorated style. Comprising:- nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, south porch and later west tower. Decorated windows with rectilinear, intersecting and foiled tracery. Buttreses with set-offs. 1915 west tower in three stages with pinnacles and battlements. The exterior is unremarkable in contrast to the interior where the walls have bands of black marble following the lines of the window arches and arcades. In the chancel diaper pattern and polychromatic friezes. Smaller arch set within the chancel arch with polychromatic diaper pattern. Octagonal arcade piers with bands of a dark and light marble. Aisle walls have inscriptions in circular frames. The chancel roof is boarded and painted and the ribs are supported on corbel heads. The nave and aisle roofs are unceiled wooden barrel vaults and the transepts have scissor braces. Contemporary furnishings including seating, alter rail, tower screen, pulpit and lectern etc and an alabaster screen to choir and an alabaster font. Disused Norman font bowl with low relief wavy lines. Monuments from the old church; Brass to Sir John Crocker in armour 1508. Mary Coppleston 1630 tomb chest with kneeling figures in arched recess. Mural monuments to Bastard family, including:- Thomas Veale Bastard 1732. Edmund and Baldwin Pollexfen 1773. Thomas Veale 1782, a bust. References: Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society (IV) pages 245-9. Paul Thompson, "William Butterfield".
Listing NGR: SX5777651701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100487
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society, Vol. 4, (), 245-9
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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