Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325078
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325078
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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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:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bigbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 66786 46642
Details
BIGBURY - SX 64 NE 5/1 Church of St Lawrence 26.1.67 GV II*
Anglican parish church. C14 and C15 but '... all but rebuilt by J Sedding in 1872' (Pevsner). Rubble stone, slate roofs to coped gables. Nave, chancel, north aisle, south transept, south porch, west tower with spire. Tower has diagonal buttresses to three offsets; C19 west door under 3-light Perpendicular window, ringing chamber slit above. Rendered crenellations, octagonal rubble spire. Salt side has slate steps to ringers' door. Nave, south, 2-light Perpendicular, porch with 4-centred door in square label, 2-light Perpendicular, and a 3-light reticulated on east return to transept. Chancel has two 2-light C14 type and 3-light east window with cinquefoil in circle in tracery, angle buttresses, north wall plain. East end of north aisle with 3-light Perpendic- ular, north wall has three 2-light as south wall of nave; 3-light to west end. Plinth, except to north aisle. Interior: limewashed walls, tiled floors, 3-bay nave arcade to four shafts separated by wave mould; an extra bay from chancel, but wide pier, arcade 2 hollows and half-round mould. C19 barrel roof to nave, ceiled, with ribs and bosses to chancel, which is continuous with nave; unceiled barrel north aisle, flat panelled to south transept. In chancel C14 piscina and ogee-headed sedilia; opposite is tomb recess with moulded arch including C14 'wave' head. Broad squint from south transept, which has ogee-headed piscina. Tower arch glazed in. Fittings: C19 pews, good eagle lectern from Ashburton by Thomas Prideaux c.1510; pulpit, medieval, also from Ashburton, chalice foot, panels with ogee arches. Octagonal granite font on 4 square piers, good timber cover. Early C15 de Bikebury brass, and slate slab on transept wall to 'John and Jane Peirce', 1589 and 1612. In the north aisle are remains of the village stocks. Information in the church refers to the 1872 restoration, which cost a total of £1750-8-1 including £90-12-0; it also records the moving of the main approach from the west to the east end. (Pevsner, N, South Devon, 1952).
Listing NGR: SX6678646642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952)
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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