St Thomas' Church

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:: St Thomas' Church, East Shefford, RG17 7EF

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD St Thomas' Church

(Formerly listed as The Old Church)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 39340
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 236
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 168
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.