Parish Church of St Andrew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1325826
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1325826
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clayhidon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16135 15597
Details
ST 11 NE CLAYHIDON CLAYHIDON 2/21 Parish Church of St Andrew 5.4.66 - I Parish church. Fabric of nave and chancel probably late C13. South aisle and west tower C15. Coursed rubble chert and limestone; roughcast west tower; limestone and Ham Hill stone dressings; slate roof, with crested ridge tiles to nave only. Plan: west tower, nave, south aisle and south porch, chancel. Exterior: west tower: 3 stages, moulded stringcourse and plinth, battlemented with corner pinnacles (some truncated), south-east square-section stair turret with separate south porch with gable-ended roof. 2-light belfry openings; 3-light west window, Perpendicular; west doorway with chamfered arch, the door itself possibly contemporary, albeit heavily restored. South side: 5 bays including porch; all 3-light Perpendicular windows, largely replaced externally by Ham Hill stone in the C19. Porch, diagonal buttresses, moulded outer arch with sundial in gable wall, dated 1782. Inner doorway, C15, composite moulded arch, square-headed above with foliated spandrels. Stair turret to rood loft between bays 4 and 5. Chancel: blocked priest's door; 2- and 4-light windows, Perpendicular, heavily restored. North side: tall square-headed window, probably early C16, lighting screen and pulpit; two 3-light Perpendicular C19 windows; concave moulded stone wall plate. Interior: Chancel arch, double chamfered and possibly late C13. Also of this date the font, Ham Hill stone, circular bowl, moulded with fleurons to its base, with an octagonal stem, moulded plinth with separate bases for detached shafts which have now disappeared. A tomb recess with half an effigy of a priest (presumably reset in the 1840's) is also late C13 and possibly represents one of the 2 members of the Hydon family who provided the first incumbents. C13 encaustic tiles now set under alter table. South arcade of 5 bays, wavey moulding to piers, capitals to principal shafts only; tower arch with concave moulding; wagon roof to nave and chancel, that to the nave unceiled in the 1960's, with ribs, bosses and wall plate all of the C15. Door to rood loft (now destroyed) early C16. Piscina and credence table under pointed arch looks C15. Some of the inner tracery and window arches look original C15 work. Mid-C18 panelled west gallery. A complete set of 1840s furnishings (benches, stalls, sanctuary rails, commandment boards, sanctuary floor tiling and patterned glass to chancel and coloured glass to west window, forms an important group. References: Pevsner, S.D; Guidebook by Ian Wakeling.
Listing NGR: ST1613415597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95677
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wakeling, I, Church of St Andrew Church Guide, ()
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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