Parish Church of St Etheldreda
Parish Church of St Etheldreda, Fore Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348124
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Etheldreda
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Etheldreda, Fore Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348124
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Etheldreda
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Etheldreda, Fore 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:
- Parish Church of St Etheldreda, Fore Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23505 08488
Details
TL 2308
15/99
HATFIELD
FORE STREET (south side)
Parish Church of St Etheldreda
30.3.66
GV
I
Church. C13 and C15. Some work of early C17. 1872 rebuilt exterior by David Brandon. Flint walls with stone dressings. Ashlar north east chapel. Cruciform plan with north and south chancel chapels, transepts with western chapels, north and south porches and west tower.
Tower is four stages with setback buttresses, a broad west door with quatrefoil decoration in the spandrels and a four-light west window. Windows of nave and chancel are Decorated style.
Interior has aisleless nave with waggon roof. Narrow west arch with deeply moulded jambs. Panelled chancel roof. North east chancel chapel (The Salisbury Chapel) by Francis Carter for William, second Earl of Salisbury, as mortuary chapel for his father. Perpendicular style windows. Three-bay arcade to chancel with Tuscan columns of Shap granite.
Interior redecorated in 1871 by third Marquess of Salisbury: mosaic walls with Alabaster arcade of trefoiled arches. Painted panelled ceiling. West and south wrought iron gates of early C18 Flemish work. Monument in centre to Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury d.1612. Sculptures of Earl and supporting female figures by Maximilian Colt. Also in chapel C13 floor effigy of knight, and effigy of William Curll by Nicholas Stone, 1617. C15 south easr chancel chapel (The Brocket Chapel) has large marble standing wall monument to Sir James Read by Michael Rysbrack, 1765, 1598 wall monument to Sir John Brocket and tomb of 2nd Viscount Melbourne (d.1848). Tie beam roof with head stops. C13 arch to south west transept chapel. Good later C19 glass: south transept window by Burne Jones, 1894; chancel east window and north east chapel window by Clayton and Bell, c.1870-2. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL2350508488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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