Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345813
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345813
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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 SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Chinnock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49868 13239
Details
ST41SE EAST CHINNOCK CP HIGH STREET (South side)
3/51 Church of Saint Mary
19.4.61
GV II
Church. C14 origins, now mostly C15 and C19 work. Ham stone ashlar of varying quality, with rubble plinth to South wall of nave; Welsh slates between coped gables, with stone slate base courses to chancel. 2-cell plan with west tower, North East vestry and South porch; the nave double width, totally C19 and probably encompassing former North aisle; 2-bay chancel, 2/3 bay nave. Chancel C14 in character: plinth full height buttresses angled to corners: 3-light trefoil cusped arched pointed East window, C14 tracery; 2-light matching windows in South wall with double quatre-foil panels under each light, moulded arched doorway between them; on North wall a C16 flat headed window of two 4 centre arched lights; all windows without labels. North East corner vestry of C19, designed to match chancel. Nave totally C19; two 3-light windows with composite "Y" tracery to North wall; similar but smaller window to West end over plain moulded pointed arched doorway; and likewise 3 narrower windows in South wall, the central one shortened to fit porch, South porch very simple, possibly C14; chamfered pointed arch doorway, inner door similar but 2 chamfered orders; bench seats; stone barrel vault ceiling covered externally with stone slabs. Tower of C14/C15 in three stages; angled corner buttresses 2 storeys high, but with octagonal stair turret to South West corner; plinth, string courses defining stages; battlemented parapets with prominent corner gargoyles: stage 1 has moulded pointed arched doorway with 3 cinquefoil head light window with C15 tracery set in hollowed recess without label; stage 2 has clock faces to North and West sides single light trefoil headed windows in hollowed rectangular recesses; stage 3 has 2-light trefoil cusped traceried windows in deep hollowed recesses, pierced stone baffles to South and West, the others of wood. Inside, little of note: chancel has plaster barrel vault ceiling with stone springing course; all wall plaster stripped; rere-arches to all pointed windows, wide and tall hollow chamfered chancel arch, late C19 arch into vestry/organ chamber; plain sedelia forming South East window cill, and nearby trefoil-cusped ogee head piscina. In nave a C16 4 linenfold panel chest near pulpit and octagonal font on circular base with water-holding moulding, possibly of C13. All but East window have mid C20 stained glass by Gunther Anton of Stuttgart, a former prisioner of war; his gift for kindnesses received from the villagers.
Listing NGR: ST4986813239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263609
- 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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