Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1333106
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1333106
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clovelly
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 30975 25135
Details
CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT PARK SS 32 SW
5/80 Church of All Saints 20.2.58
GV I
Anglican parish church. Virtually all C15 and early C16, restored in 1843 and again in 1884. Random and coursed rubble, gabled slate roofs with cruciform finials. Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, south vestry, west tower, south transept. Perpendicular. Exterior: 3-stage tower with a crenellated parapet, corner pinnacles, very small square bell-chamber openings, 3-light Perpendicular west window renewed post 1826, Perpendicular west doorway. 4-bay nave, 3-bay chancel, on south. 2 and 3-light windows, tracery renewed post 1826, the south-west window of the chancel with tracery renewed in 1843. Perpendicular style 3-light south aisle window of 1905 with glass by Compter. East window to chancel 1884 with glass by Kempe. Vestry with paired reset C14 lancets. Five 2-light windows to north side of the church, again rewewed tracery post 1826. Porch rebuilt in 1843, simple Norman outer door opening with chevron ornament, inside benched on flatstone floor. Perpendicular inner doorway, ribbed door, arch-braced roof with carved bosses. Interior plastered on polychromatic tile pavements. Continuous nave and chancel under an unceiled wagon roof. North aisle with a similar unceiled wagon roof, also the transept, all C15. 4-bay north aisle arcade with depressed 4-centred arch heads, piers of 4- hollows section with simple facetted capitals. Plain semi-circular head to the tower arch; a chamfered semi-circular head doorway to tower stair. Square Norman font with broached corners on a drum base. Detached font bowl to the north-west corner, possibly C13, tub with ribs at the corners. Nave and aisle with a full set of C17 benches some minor later restoration. Pulpit dated 1634, the gift of William Cary of Clovelly Court. Small Jacobean altar gable in the aisle. Jacobean with a richly carved back. Rich High Victorian Gothic fittings including a recess which may incorporate some earlier carved work, altar rails, choir stalls, lectern dated 1883, organ by Vowles of 1889, base to pulpit renewed 1900, and oil lamps. The interior is rich with memorials including a good series of the C17 to chancel walls with Classical columns and achievements to Carys as well as floor slabs, aisle with late C18 and early C19 monuments to the Hamlyn family, also nave with monuments and also floor slabs. North chancel window with fragments of glass, possibly early. 4 bells, 1 dated 1708 and 1 dated 1759. Source: Hoskins W G., A New Survey of Devon, 1954; Church Guide; Private records held at Clovelly Court.
Listing NGR: SS3097325134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91149
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church of All Saints Clovelly Church Guide, ()
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1954)
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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