Parish Church of St Andrew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313078
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313078
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Loxton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37624 55824
Details
ST 35 NE LOXTON CHURCH LANE, Loxton
4/56 Parish Church of St Andrew 9.2.61 II*
Parish church (Anglican). C11 origins, C13 - C15, early C2O restoration and extension. All rendered rubble and plain clay tile roof apart from organ chamber and vestry of snecked rubble and slate roof. Nave and chancel, north chapel, south porch tower, south vestry and organ chamber. Nave and chancel; 3 light Perpendicular west window under slight drip mould; to north a restored 2 light Pecorated window and a square head 2 light window under a dripmould; Between adjacent to a C2O buttress is blocked north door with segmental head; at north east is rood stair in lean-to turret; at south a single lancet; chancel, under same roof has a 3 light east window, restored in 1913; north chapel; gabled with cusped trefoiled east window; to north a 2 light Perpendicular window; to south a small cusped window; small C20 lean-to boiler shed; single stage embattled south tower, low buttresses only at outer corners, at east and west there is a weathered set back about halfway up; plain slit windows to bell chamber; south organ chamber and vestry, dated 1926, to south a weathered buttress separates a priest's door with shouldered jambs and 2 light window above from a small cusped 3 light window; east has a 2 light window and a quatrefoil above; consecration cross and date on quoins. Interior; nave and chancel; cusped rear arch to south lancet; wagon roof on angel corbels of 1900; much restored and moved Perpendicular rood screen; chancel panelled and new reredos with excellent detail in 1913 at same time as nave stripped of plaster and new stone floor inserted; strange flat arches pierce nave and chancel wall for vestry and organ chamber; south tower porch; south doorway has damaged remnant, inner arch of C11/C12 arch; segmental headed arch has simple mould with pellet decoration above; empty niche above that; simple square squint through great depth of nave wall for view of chancel. Fittings; octagonal C14 font with Jacobean hood; Perpendicular pulpit of the local school, half octagon, 2 traceried lights per side divided by buttresses with free standing finials, foliate frieze and cornice above, all carried on trumpet foot on human corbel. (Source: N. Pevsner : Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol 1958).
Listing NGR: ST3762455824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33395
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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