Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320424
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320424
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH END
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 CUTHBERT, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shustoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24296 90990
Details
SHUSTOKE CHURCH END SP2490 14/170 Church of St. Cuthbert 08/09/61 - II* Church. Late C13 chancel and west tower, C14 nave and late C14/early C15 upper stages of tower. Coursed sandstone. Plain-tiled roofs with end parapets and gable crosses. Plan of west tower, nave and chancel. West tower of 4 stages on splayed plinth with embattled parapets and crocketed pinnacles and grotesque gargoyles at the corners. There are 4-stage diagonal buttresses. The west window is of late C13, of 2-lights with Y-tracery in 2-centred arch. The first and second stages have loop windows, those at the second stage have ogee-heads with finials. The bell-stage has 2 openings, with cinquefoil heads in 2-centred arches. Octagonal spire of sandstone ashlar with 3 single-light openings with foiled heads. Nave: Varied plinth height indicates different builds. 3 windows with restored C19 tracery. 2 of 2-lights, one of 3-lights, all with reticulated tracery in 2-centred chamfered arch with moulded label. South porch C14 in origin, but side walls rebuilt C19. Gabled parapet. Two-centred outer arch of hollow and roll moulded order on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases and renewed columns. Inner arch 2-centred and of 2 continuous wave moulded orders with label and mask stops. East wall of south aisle has late C17 wall monument in bolection moulded surround. The inscription has been eroded. Chancel: South wall has 2 windows each of 2 lights with Y-tracery in 2-centred and chamfered arch with label. Doorway to chancel has 2-centred arch of 2 continuous cavetto mouldings. There is a low side window in 2-centred arch at west end of chancel. C18 chest tomb adjoins the chancel on the south side. The east window has a C19 window of 3-lights. North doorway of nave is 2-centred with single continuous wave moulding. Blocked doorway. Interior: C13 west tower arch has 3 chamfered orders to 2-centred arch. Aisleless nave with C19 roof of 5 bays. C13 chancel arch 2-centred and of 2 chamfered orders. The chancel has a double piscina in the south wall. Trefoil heads to 2 bays in 2-centred arch with quatrefoil to the spandrel. In north wall a monument to Sir William Dugdale (d.1685), the antiquary, of Blyth Hall, Shustoke. Plain tomb chest with shield and garland. Back panel with open segmental pediment. North vestry has a reset Norman window. Font: C12 bowl on C20 base. Tapering cylindrical bowl with frieze of intersecting arcading on columns with pedimented capitals. Above a band of running foliage and below one of cable ornament. Chest: C16. Oak with iron fastenings. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p390; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV )
Listing NGR: SP2429690990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309075
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947)
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 390
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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