Church of the Holy Cross
CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1344695
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05480/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1344695
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH ROAD
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 THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middlezoy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37471 33099
Details
MIDDLEZOY CP CHURCH ROAD (East side) ST33SE 5/28 Church of the Holy Cross 29.3.63 GV I
Anglican parish church. C13, C14, C15, C16, restored C19. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, slate and lead-sheeting roofs, coped verges, finials. Nave with south aisle and a south porch, north transept, chancel, west tower. Geometrical, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. Lofty 3-stage tower of Quantock type; set-back buttresses connected diagonally across the angle, buttresses terminate in tall diagonally-set shafts on the top stage, pinnacles set diagonally at the corners; topping polygonal stair-turret to north; west doorway, 4-light west window with fine tracery; on stage above 2-light windows with Somerset tracery, flanking canopied niches; on bell-chamber stage twin 2-light openings, Somerset tracery, flanked by thin shafts with pinnacles. Nave with 3-light Perpendicular windows to north. Aisle of 5 bays; on south side 2-light windows with plate tracery, a small lancet, and a 3-light Perpendicular window with square head; to west end 3-light Perpendicular window; to east end 3-light window with reticulated tracery of c1330; buttresses; on south wall a lead plaque dated 1752. Gabled porch with broad outer door opening, benched inside on a flagstone floor, small double-chamfered inner doorway with trefoil niche over. Single bay north transept, low-pitched gable, parapet with coping, 3-light windows. Two bay chancel, 2-light windows, renewed tracery of c1300, 2 lancet lights with trefoils above them and a quatrefoil under the main arch, conforming 3-light east window with septfoil under main arch; evidence of former rood-turret to north, ribbed and studded priest's door to south, moulded surround, label with carved head stops. Plastered interior on flagstone floors. Arcade to aisle of 5 bays, piers of 4-hollows section, arch to north transept in similar style. Panelled Perpendicular tower arch, angel busts, incomplete fan-vault. Nave with ceiled C17 wagon roof, moulded cornice, ornamental bosses, pendants over former rood. Aisle windows with small internal shafts. Chancel windows with rere-arches. Corbel heads to aisle roof. Two good piscinae. Octagonal Perpendicular font with Jacobean tester. Good miserere to chancel. C16 rood screen, tall, panels of 4-lights with a middle mullion reaching to the apex of the arch, coving missing. Jacobean tower screen with upper section of balusters. C17 altar. Two C17 chests; pulpit, wooden with blank arches in two tiers. Some late medieval carved bench ends, some poppy finials. C18/C19 wall monuments. Stained glass figure of St Dorothy to south aisle lancet, C16; some C19 stained glass. (Pevsner, N. Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; Photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST3747333103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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