Church of St Gregory
Church of St Gregory, Treneglos
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310214
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Gregory, Treneglos
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310214
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Gregory, Treneglos
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 Gregory, Treneglos
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warbstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2078688106
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 February 2024 to correct source, remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
SX 28 NW
7/203
TRENEGLOS
Church of St Gregory
(previously listed as Church of St Werburgh)
22.11.60
GV
II*
Parish church dedicated to St Gregory. Norman origins, extended in late C15 or early C16 and tower rebuilt in 1872. Granite ashlar south porch and south wall of nave. Stone rubble chancel, snecked stone with granite quoins in north aisle and roughly snecked stone west tower.
Plan: nave, chancel, four bay north aisle, south porch and west tower. The church has Norman origins with Norman font and tympanum. North aisle added in circa late C15 or early C16 and south wall of nave and porch added in C16. Tower rebuilt in 1872.
Exterior: C19 west tower of three stages with moulded plinth and strings and parapet rebuilt, the croceted finials reused from the earlier tower. Stair turret on north. No west door, C19 three-light Perpendicular west window and two-light belfry openings. Complete late C15 or early C16 Perpendicular tracery to north aisle with moulded basket arch to north door and canted rood loft stair turret towards east end. C19 east window to chancel. Cusped one-light window in south wall of chancel and two circa C16 Perpendicular three-light windows in nave. C16 porch with outer four-centred roll-moulded arch with hood mould, C16 waggon roof and C16 roll-moulded four-centred granite arch to south door with Norman tympanum above. The tympanum probably depicts two lions facing each other with a stylized tree in the centre.
Interior: C19 plastered walls with remains of red and blue colouring in chancel; possibly distemper. C19 roofs. Four bay granite arcade to north aisle with type A (Pevsner) piers with moulded caps and bases and moulded four-centred arches. Remains of rood loft stair modified to provide steps up to C19 pulpit. C19 altar table and rails and simple C19 pews. Gothic detailing to organ case. Norman font of circa 1100 (Sedding): Round bowl and shaft with square upper part of base decorated with carved heads on corners. Four engaged round squat shafts forming lower part of base. Stocks at west end of church. Gas light fittings.
Listing NGR: SX2078688106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sedding, H, Norman Architecture in Cornwall: A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, (1909)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (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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