Church of St Godwald
CHURCH OF ST GODWALD, FINSTALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356762
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Godwald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GODWALD, FINSTALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356762
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Godwald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GODWALD, FINSTALL ROAD
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 GODWALD, FINSTALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96945 69580
Details
SO 96 NE FINSTALL ROAD, Aston Fields
666/6/10015 CHURCH OF ST GODWALD
II
Anglican church. 1883-4; by John Cotton. Red sandstone ashlar with Bath stone dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with coped gable ends. PLAN: Nave, chancel, south transept with vestry in east angle, and south porch with bellcote. Victorian Gothic style, in a style of circa 1300. EXTERIOR: The nave has 2-light windows with Geometric tracery on the south side and plate tracery on the north side. The south transept has large 2-light Geometric traceried window with flanking lancets, and similar window on west end of nave. Chancel east window is of three lights with Geometric tracery. The south porch has a timber bellcote over it. INTERIOR: Yellow brick walls, partly painted over. 3-bay nave roof with arch and scissor braces, on carved stone corbels. Moulded stone chancel arch and 2-bay arcade to south transept. Common-rafter-and-collar chancel roof. Seating including choir stalls and altar rail intact. Gothic carved stone reredos of 1924 by Celestino Pancheri; ornate marble Gothic font of 1897; D-Day memorial by Robert Pancheri. Stained glass east window, and in south transept a window by A.E. Lemmon. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.153.
Listing NGR: SO9694569580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476991
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 153
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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