St Thomas' Church
St Thomas' Church, East Shefford, RG17 7EF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321841
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Thomas' Church
- Statutory Address:
- St Thomas' Church, East Shefford, RG17 7EF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321841
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Thomas' Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Thomas' Church, East Shefford, RG17 7EF
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:
- St Thomas' Church, East Shefford, RG17 7EF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shefford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39058 74679
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/01/2020
SU 37 SE
10/7
GREAT SHEFFORD
EAST SHEFFORD
St Thomas' Church
(Formerly listed as The Old Church)
I
Church. Norman with remodelled C15 windows, nave and chancel. Old tile roof. Flint and stone walls, Ferricrete, part rendered with Bath stone dressings. Simple gabled roof swept down over small chapel to south of chancel. Plain gabled south porch, one two-light and one single light square headed window under drip moulds. Wall gabled dormer over chapel.
Interior: fine alabaster tomb to Sir Thomas Fettiplace and wife (1447 and 1442). On north wall of chancel recessed Purbeck altar tomb with brasses and canopy about 1520. C16 floor tiles in chancel and remains of paintings above chancel arch. Door and portion of rood loft stair remains. Norman tub font. Vested in the Redundant Churches Fund (later the Churches Conservation Trust).
Listing NGR: SU3905874680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 168
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 236
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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