Church of St Mary and St John
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344874
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344874
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST JOHN
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 ST MARY AND ST JOHN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamyatt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66126 36190
Details
LAMYATT CP ST63NE LAMYATT VILLAGE 8/240 Church of St Mary and St John 2.6.61 GV II*
Anglican parish church. C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration, Coursed rubble and some ashlar, freestone dressings, slate roofs to coped verges, finials. Nave, chancel, north and south porches, south vestry, west tower. Predominantly Perpendicular. Plain C13 west tower, 2 stages, pyramidal roof, pennant windvane, blank parapet with coping, 3 large corner gargoyles, simple one and 2-light bell-chamber windows, some with cusped lights, renewed; bold diagonal 2-stage buttresses to west on lowest stage, lancet west window, above 2 stone faces set into the wall, C13, a man and a woman, possibly reused; to south a doorway at ringing-chamber stage, chamfered freestone surround, divided plank door reached by an external iron staircase, C19, though restored. Three bay nave, good 3-light pointed-head traceried windows, 2 stage buttresses. Gabled north porch, moulded inner and outer doorways; benched inside on a flagstone floor stoup, stone-vaulted roof with ribs, C17 studded outer door with strap fringes, paired C19 ribbed inner doors. Small gabled south porch, moulded inner and outer doorways with 4-centred arch heads; flagstone floor, stone-vaulted roof with ribs, ornamental corbels, C19 ribbed inner door. Chancel blank on north and south sides, C19 neo-Perpendicular west window. Small low vestry with a cusped single- light window to east. Plastered interior on flagstone floors. Panelled chancel arch; double-chamfered squat tower arch, chamfers dying into the imposts. Good moulded tie-leaf roof to nave, part C15, part C19; chancel with arch-braced collar-beam roof, C19, though may include earlier work. Norman tub font with cable banding, C17 tester. C18 chest. Other fittings of high quality late C19 work, in medieval style including pews, altar, altar rails, stone reredos, and choir stalls. Early C18 memorial over north door; good C18 memorial to chance in moulded architrave. Five early/mid C19 wall monuments by Chapman of Frome, Reeves of Bath, and Rogers of Bath. Sole stained glass to south nave window, the story of St Christopher. (Photograph of scratch-dial in NMR; Illustrated John Buckler, 1833).
Listing NGR: ST6612636190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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