Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320766
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320766
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, 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:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clutton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62258 58927
Details
ST 65 NW CLUTTON CHURCH LANE (west side)
6/15 Church of St. Augustine 21.9.60 II*
Parish church. Late C12, C15 west tower rebuilt 1728, remainder rebuilt 1865 by John Norton. Squared and coursed sandstone with freestone dressings to tower. Sandstone laid in alternate bands of red and grey to bell stage. Rock-faced pennant sandstone in irregular courses with freestone dressings, quoins and copings to remainder. Slate roofs. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower, south porch. Fenestration to main body of church excluding tower is crude neo-Early English of 2 and 3-lights with plate tracery and quatrefoils or rosettes in the apex. East window is further decorated with nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. Bracketted eaves cornice. Tower of 3 stages with south east corner stair turret. Diagonal buttresses ending at 2nd stage string course in crocketted pinnacles. Moulded string courses, embattled parapets with corner crocketted pinnacles. West facade has round-arched doorway with keyed classical surround and studded plank C19 door. Above this a tall 3-light window under straight head with round-headed lights. 2nd stage has rebuilding date plaque below 2-light window similar to that below. 2-light round-headed bell openings with dense quatrefoil piercing. Other faces are blank but set against south wall of tower is a late C18 railed tomb enclosure with urn finials and gate. Gabled C19 south porch with Transitional style round-headed doorway with roll moulding, nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals to match C12 south door of similar detail with 3 orders of roll moulding. Interior. Nave has C19 four bay arcades with various leaf and flower capitals. Double chamfer tower arch, original Transitional chancel arch with diagonal fret and stiff-leaf capitals with outer order of roll moulding. Open rafter roofs in nave and aisles. Chancel has aumbry recess on north wall, barrel roof. Fittings. Nave has C19 stone pulpit with trefoil arcading and sgraffito saints; octagonal Perpendicular font with quatrefoil panels in south aisle, recut in C19. (Pevsner, Buildings of England; J. Collinson, History of Somerset 1791).
Listing NGR: ST6225858927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Collinson, J, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, (1791)
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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