Church of the Ascension Including Church Hall to East
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, MALVERN LINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349465
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Ascension Including Church Hall to East
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, MALVERN LINK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349465
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Ascension Including Church Hall to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, MALVERN LINK
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, SOMERS PARK AVENUE
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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 THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, MALVERN LINK
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION INCLUDING CHURCH HALL TO EAST, SOMERS PARK AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Malvern
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 77437 47771
Details
SO 74 NE
943/12/183
MALVERN HILLS
MALVERN
SOMERS PARK AVENUE
MALVERN LINK
Church of the Ascension
Inc. Church Hall to East
II
Parish church. 1903 by (Sir) Walter Tapper. Rendered brick with
Guiting stone ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone tile roof,
chancel reclad in late C19 and west tower with organ chamber in
first stage. Church hall detached at east end of chancel. Free
Early English lancet style. Tall 4-bay nave with pairs of lancets
high in north and south walls between flat buttresses and with
high moulded plinth. South doorway of 2 orders and brattished
door. Plinth continues around chancel where ground is lower
giving impression that the 3-bay chancel is taller. Chancel has
single light lancets on north and south walls, triple lancet at
east end and stone bellcote at chancel nave junction. Small
ashlar west tower, cross-gabled and with 2-light north and south
bell openings; below west gable a stone relief of the Ascension by
Harry Hems of Exeter with carved inscription and triple lancet
below. Small stair turret in north west angle of nave and tower.
Wrought-iron weather-vane on tower, cross over east gable and
stone chimney on north side of chancel. Church hall at east end
has two pairs of 3-light cross-mullion transom windows in 2 bays
and is linked to chancel by a porch. Interior: Plastered walls and
stone dressings. Nave vault with transverse ribs on tall shafts.
Trifarium has 4 bay arcades in each of the naves 4 bays.
Tripartite arcade to organ loft over tower arch. Trifarium
continues around chancel which is rib-vaulted and has detached
shafts to tripartite east
window, 3-bay sedillia and tall chancel arch. Furnishings include
wrought-iron screen, font cover and alter ornaments by George
Bainbridge Reynolds. Rood from Oberammergau. Painted reredos.
Panelled polygonal pulpit with canopy. Purbeck marble font with
clusters of detached shafts. Choir stalls with poppy- head ends
and traceried fronts. Carving of St Michael over tower arch
probably by Hems.
Note: The church was the gift of Louisa Vavasour Livingstone in
memory of her husband Arthur Guinness Livingstone.
Sources: Architectural Review Vol. XIX (1906) page 187
Buildings of England, Worcestershire, p.166
The Builder 1904 10/12/1904.
Listing NGR: SO7743047773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152219
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 166
Architectural Review in Architectural Review, Vol. 19, (1906), 187
The Builder in 10 December, (1904)
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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