Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320668
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320668
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 37957 57287
Details
ST 35 NE LOXTON CHRISTON
4/55 Parish Church of St. Mary 9.2.61 G.V. I
Parish church (Anglican). C12, C14, C16, 1875. Rubble, squared quoins slate and clay tile roofs, raised coped verges. Nave, south porch, central tower, chancel. 3 bay nave with heavy weathered buttresses; neo-Norman west window has recessed colonnettes with scallop capitals and outer scallopped corbels which carry a decorated dripmould; similar windows north and south carry no inner order; slate pitched roof to plain gable. Gabled south porch, clay tile roof, arch-head opening and low stone seat around C12 doorway; inner arch has paired chevrons making lozenges on main face and return, then colonnettes with scallop capitals support a frieze of chevrons on 2 faces, all surmounted by drip decorated with greek key. Tower of 2 stages; first, plain has dressed stone at corners, single square lights at ground and belfry and a plain stair turret with one circular light and lean-to roof at north east corner; second stage has plain parapet above string course carried on decorative corbels, mainly grotesque and single lights below. Gabled chancel has some rubble in diagonal courses; neo- norman west window has 2 round headed lights in colonnettes with scallop capitals and small central oculus above in arched recess; restored 2 light north and south windows and south priest's door. Interior; 3 bay nave with wagon roof, perpendicular but 1536, large and small bosses alternate along spine, embattled wallplate, one nave window has cusped rear arch; central tower has two restored arches which take the motifs of the south door, colonnettes, twisted to nave arch, plain to chancel; above, paired chevrons making lozenges surmounted by greek key; groin vaulted tower has 4 heavy ribs which sit on grotesque dragon- like corbels; chancel, north and south windows have trefoil cusped rear arches. Fittings; C12 font, square with cross and chevron decoration on 3 sides, stands on plain circular capital on plinth; neo-Norman pulpit with colonnade; timber communion table and reredos of 1950; boiler screen of 1978 has some very fine carved timber detail. Tablet by T. King of Bath to Anne S.E. Gore, 1793. Glass; tower south window has mediaeval fragments; nave south window depicting Madonna and Child by W. Morris and Co.
Listing NGR: ST3795857287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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