Priory Church
PRIORY CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320691
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320691
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY CHURCH
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:
- PRIORY CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kewstoke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34361 66171
Details
KEWSTOKE C.P. WOODSPRING PRIORY ST 36 NW
1/1 Priory Church [formerly listed as 9.2.61 Woodspring Priory (former Church of The Holy Trinity, St Mary and Thomas a Becket)]
G.V. I
Priory Church, partially converted to house. C15 and early C16. Ashlar, slate nave roof, leaded tower roof. Nave, crossing tower, north aisle. Nave of two bays, crossing of one. West front, gabled and flanked by octagonal turrets clearly shows blocked west window, pierced now by two 3-light mullioned windows. Remains of 3 mutilated effigies around window. To south, nave window hood moulds remain, windows blocked, 2-light windows inserted, that to west removed during C20 restoration, not at time of survey, replaced, 3-light cross windows, inserted below. Perpendicular crossing window restored in 1970. Quatrefoil pierced parapet. At east, blocked chancel arch has inserted door and window above. Above crossing, tower shows 2 stages; diagonal buttresses with setbacks terminate in crocketed attached pinnacles; first stage has 3-light perpendicular windows to north and south; second stage has 3-light mullion and transom perpendicular windows under dripmoulds on all sides; they are blank below transom, pierced above. The quatrefoil parapet dates from the restoration of 1827. North aisle, of 3 bays, buttresses between of early C16 build; windows as south nave blocked, lights inserted for domestic occupation; slate roof to eaves now lacking parapet. Interior; nave sub-divided as domestic apartments, ground floor has Gothic plasterwork and fittings. Crossing has incomplete early C19 fan-vault on panelled piers with attached shafts; fragmentary evidence of pulpitum. North aisle has 3 bay arcade unchamfered below for screen, only crossing arch now open others blocked by domestic apartments; western bay still has upper rooms, other insertion now removed and evidenced by joist recesses and windows. Source: Woodspring Priory, D.J. Tomalin, 1974.
Listing NGR: ST3435566176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tomalin, D J, Woodspring Priory, (1974)
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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