Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384723
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384723
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE
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 CATHERINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 90885 12648
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW WITHLEIGH
848-1/4/343 Church of St Catherine
18/06/88
GV II
Parish church. 1846 by John Hayward of Exeter. Local rubble
walls with freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs with
coped gables with moulded kneelers; stone bellcote with single
bell, over left-hand gable.
STYLE: Middle Pointed style.
PLAN: chancel with north vestry and nave with south porch.
MATERIALS: windows have trefoil-headed lights, the 2-light
nave windows and the 4-light chancel window with quatrefoil
tracery, multiple light windows with hoodmoulds with varied
head stops. 4-bay nave; 1-bay chancel with weathered
buttresses dividing bays. Porch (2nd bay) has moulded
pointed-arched doorway; inner doorway with pair of original
ledged and braced oak doors.
INTERIOR: has arch-braced roof structure, now partly hidden by
later ceiling; plastered walls with dressed stone reararches.
FITTINGS: include pine pews with panelled and moulded square
ends; round freestone font with traceried bowl carried on
centre pier and 4 polished stone shafts; octagonal pulpit with
V-jointed boards, and choir stall with Gothic tracery.
HISTORY: John Hayward of Exeter was the leading local
practitioner of Gothic Revival church building in the County
of Devon from the 1840s to the 1860s.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: 915).
Listing NGR: SS9088512648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 915
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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