Former Church of St Andrew
FORMER CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387033
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387033
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH WALK
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:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pershore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94832 45826
Details
PERSHORE
SO9445 CHURCH WALK 648-1/5/97 (East side) 11/02/65 Former Church of St Andrew
GV II*
Church, now used as parish hall. Late-C12 nave and N arcade; C15 chancel, S aisle and tower; C18 porch; internal re-ordering mid-C20. Limestone with brick porch. Plain tile roof with stone coping. PLAN: chancel, 5-bay nave with N and S aisles, S porch, and 2-stage W tower. EXTERIOR: chancel has single-light E window and, to S, 2-light cusped windows under square-headed hoodmould. North aisle: a NE extension has 2-light mullioned window with leaded quarries, and deep moulded parapet; 2 windows with renewed Perpendicular tracery and 2 pointed-arched windows, one of 2 trefoil-headed lights; pointed-arched N door with replacement door; moulded plinth and eaves course. South aisle: 2- and 3-light square-headed windows with hoodmoulds and Perpendicular tracery; moulded plinth course; buttresses with offsets. Dentilled gable to brick S porch. West end of N aisle has large 3-light window with geometrical tracery. West tower: embattled and with corner gargoyles; offset buttresses incorporating grotesques; moulded string courses at parapet, first-stage, and plinth level; projecting stair tower on N; ringing chamber has ogee-headed openings each with three louvred trefoil-headed lights; Perpendicular 4-light W window with deep splay and hoodmould; other chamber and stair lights; remodelled 4-centred-arched S tower door; defaced niche in S wall. INTERIOR: transitional N arcade has round piers with stylised leaf capitals and single-chamfered arches; Perpendicular S arcade, now blocked off, has octagonal piers and castellated capitals (it originally incorporated a former S transept and encroached on the nave leaving this narrower than chancel); 4-centre-arch with moulded surround to N wall of chancel; Perpendicular tower arch of 4 orders. Waggon roofs to chancel and nave; principal rafters and heavy-scantling chamfered purlins to N aisle; tie-beams, struts, heaily-moulded ridge-beam and purlins to S aisle. FITTINGS: include crocketed niche with angel corbel and small piscina at E end of N aisle; and royal arms over former chancel arch (now blocked). The interior was divided mid-C20 to form a series of rooms on
2 levels with staircase inserted at W end. (BoE: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-).
Listing NGR: SO9482945824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
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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