Church of the Assumption and St Mary
CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION AND ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364334
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Assumption and St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION AND ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364334
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Assumption and St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION AND ST MARY
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 ASSUMPTION AND ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longbridge Deverill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86787 40275
Details
ST 84 SE LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL HILL DEVERILL (east side) Church of The Assumption and St Mary 3/189 (formerly listed as the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 6.9.82
GV II
Anglican parish church, now redundant. 1843 rebuilding by Chapman and Sons. Dressed limestone, Welsh slate roof, ashlar bellcote. Plan: nave, chancel, west entrance and bellcote. Pre- archaeololgical Gothic style. West end has pointed chamfered doorway with planked door and hoodmould, lancet over with hoodmould, diagonal butresses, coped verge. Gabled bellcote with one pointed opening. South side of nave has three chamfered pointed windows with hoodmoulds chancel has two pointed windows with hoodmoulds, butresses with offsets. East end has diagonal butresses and pointed window with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. North side has similar windows as south; all windows diamond-leaded. Dentilled eaves cornices, coped verges with kneelers and cross finials. Interior has 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel; plain chamfered pointed chancel arch. Vestibule and stairs to gallery at west end. Plain plastered walls, tie-beam trusses. All fittings removed since church made redundant in 1980's, including Ludlow C16 chest tomb now in Bath chapel at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Street (q.v.). Some wall tablets retained at time of survey (June 1985); in chancel an oval tablet with carved drapery and crest to Rachel Coker died 1699 and a classical marble tablet with urn to William Morse died 1793, Gothic-style tablet to Mary Clifford died 1793, in nave. Acquired for conversion to dwelling, June 1985. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975).
Listing NGR: ST8678740275
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313410
- 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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