Church of St Deinst
CHURCH OF ST DEINST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348911
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Deinst
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DEINST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348911
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Deinst
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST DEINST
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 DEINST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Llangarron
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53037 21169
Details
SO 52 SW; 2/85
LLANGARRON CP,
LLANGARRON
Church of St Deinst
26/02/66
GV
I
Parish church. C14. West tower, nave and chancel, C15 south porch, north
aisle dated 1841. Coursed sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings, slate roofs.
West tower with south stair turret and spire, nave with south porch and
north aisle, chancel.
West tower: three stages, moulded plinth and parapet
above roll moulding, stepped diagonal buttresses, recessed octagonal spire,
traceried window to west with two cusped ogee lights and hoodmould, loop
vents to second stage and 2-light windows to bell chamber, square stair
turret rising as semi-octagonal above string course toward second-stage level,
lit by loops. Four bay nave: two trefoiled ogee headed lights and quatrefoil
with hoodmould set in later gabled dormer window and 2-light square headed
window to west, large heavily restored late C14 curvilinear traceried
window of two cusped lights and square 2-light window to east of gabled stone
porch, doorway of two orders with chamfered jambs, quatrefoil panel in gable.
Two bay chancel: square-headed 2-light window to west and further square
headed window with two trefoiled ogee headed lights flanking restored doorway.
Buttress to chancel arch incorporating a piece of earlier masonry with traces
of a Norman interlace pattern.
INTERIOR: C19 roof to nave, C14 scissor-braced
roof to chancel. Chancel arcade probably of C16; central 2-centred arch of
two chamfered orders springing from moulded imposts flanked by heavily restored
smaller arches of one chamfered order; north arcade and aisle 1841.
Fittings: C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil in roundel enclosing rosette
to each facet, alternating rosette and quatrefoil to lower facets.
Wooden pulpit c1680, tall blank arches to five panelled sides, fluted
frieze, C17 communion rails with turned balusters and moulded rails reused
as screen. Monuments: cusped sepulchral recess in south-east wall of nave,
small figure on coffin-shaped slab on south wall near doorway referred to as
Chrisholm Child possibly early C14; west wall: Jane Gwillam memorial, C18
marble wall tablet, scrolled cartouche with coat of arms above; south wall:
Scudamore memorial. Early C18 scrolled and draped marble tablet with cherubs
and defaced shield by Fowler of Gloucester. Chancel east wall: Gwillym
memorial, late C17 or early C18, highly decorative marble tablet with
scrolled and draped oval inscription panel, with cherubs, cherubs' heads and
cartouche with two coats of arms.
Listing NGR: SO5303321171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153889
- 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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