Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345127
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345127
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Litton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59382 54702
Details
ST55SE LITTON CP LITTON VILLAGE VILLAGE 7/64 Church of St Mary
21.9.60
GV I
Anglican Parish Church. C13, C14, C15; mid C19 restoration and added north aisle, further early C20 work. Coursed and squared rubble, some ashlar, freestone dressings, coped verges, slate roofs. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south chancel chapel, south porch, west tower. Predominantly Perpendicular. Two stage tower, bold set off, angle buttresses, embattled parapet, corner pinnacles, stair turret; large gargoyles; beneath the parapet a series of carved corbels, sore with foliate decoration, sole carved as heads; angels on north and south sides with carved arms, Prebendary Richard Harewell 1366-1435 and Thomas Paulton, Archdeacon of Taunton 1395-1416; 2-light square headed bell chamber openings with louvres, lancet to west, 3-light west window, west door. Three bay nave; 3 bay south aisle, 3-light windows and a 2-light window with flowing tracery to west. Continuous south chapel, single bay; aisle and . chapel with parapet and coping. Conforming south porch; diagonal buttresses, parapet and coping, inside benched on flagstone floor, stoup. Three bay gabled north aisle, 3-light windows in neo-Perpendicular style. Short single bay chancel, 3-light east window. Interior scraped on flagstone floor. Nave with restored arch braced collar bear roof, principals C15/C16; C14/C15 lean to roof to south aisle and chapel, moulded ribs; plaster ceiling to north aisle and chancel. Simple chamfered tower arch; chancel arch and arcade to south aisle and chapel all in similar Perpendicualr style, piers of 4-hollows section; C19 north aisle arcade. Hagioscope. Blocked C13 window to chancel, cusped rere arch. Early piscina; octagonal Perpendicular font with enriched panels, fine coeval tester. C15 pews with traceried ends, some good copies; altar rails and pulpit Jacobean. C19 box pew, lectern and organ. Early bells. C18 wall monument to south aisle, early C19 wall monument. Late C19 stained glass to east window, remainder of openings leaded and plain. (Murray, Litton Guide, undated; Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5938054703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Murray, , Litton Guide, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (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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