Church of the Holy Rood
CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363874
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Rood
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363874
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Rood
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD, THE 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 THE HOLY ROOD, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Paul Malmesbury Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93402 83393
Details
ST 98 SW ST PAUL MALMESBURY THE STREET, Rodbourne WITHOUT (north side)
8/171 Church of the Holy Rood
28.10.59
II*
Anglican parish church. C12 (nave), C13 (chancel), C15 (south porch), 1849 alterations, 1862 south-west tower, 1903 repairs. Coursed rubble to nave and chancel, squared and coursed rubble to tower, stone dressings, ashlar to south face of south porch and buttresses, stone slate roofs. Nave, chancel, south-west tower, south-west baptistry and south porch. Nave south side has one 2- light chamfered mullion under flat head, central buttress with set- off and 2-light C19 Perpendicular style window to right. North side has C12 doorway with square abaci and tympanum with incised cross and hoodmould: plank door; single light to left. Chancel south side has triangular-arched doorway with plank door and a 2- light C15 style C19 window. North side has a 2-light C14 style window with face stops to hoodmould. Two-light C13 east window under pointed head. Three-stage tower with saddleback roof, moulded string courses and single, 2 and 3-light C13 style windows. East: doorway and crosses to gable apexes. Gabled baptistry with 2- light C13 style window. Gabled south porch wth Tudor-arched doorway with coved spandrels, embattled fret above and plank door; inner south doorway with round-headed arch and C12 tympanum with rustic Tree of Life carving and plank door. Interior. Open rafter roofs throughout. Fittings. C14 style C19 font to baptistry; several wall tablets to nave north and south walls; C13 statue niche with crocketed pinnacles to right of north door. Caroline pulpit, C15 rood screen with C19 restoration. Chancel has Hungerford Pollen tablets on south wall; trefoil- headed piscina on south wall. Morris & Co. (1863) stained glass to east window: Adam and Eve to left designed by Ford Maddox Brown, Annunciation to right by D.G. Rosetti. Stone seat with semicircular back probably C13. Decalogue boards under tower. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST9340283393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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