Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024407
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024407
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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 MARTIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barcheston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 26489 39944
Details
BARCHESTON SP2639 13/2 Church of St. Martin 13/10/66 (Formerly listed as Parish Church of St. Martin)
GV II*
Church. C12/early C13 in origin with C14 additions of the north-west tower and south aisle. Alterations in C17 and restored 1870 and 1894. Finely jointed regular coursed limestone rubble and ashlar limestone. Stone slate roofs laid to diminishing courses. Stone coped gables. Chancel, nave, north and south aisles, north-west tower. Chancel. Romanesque south doorway has plank door and hood mould with label stops and is flanked by 2-light square headed Decorated windows with hood mould. Single lancet to north. North aisle. 2 stone mullioned and transomed windows, one of ovolo section. South aisle. 3-light Perpendicular window with hood mould and label stops to east. Two 2-light Perpendicular windows with hood moulds and elongated label stops. Scratch dial on buttress. South porch. Monopitch roof. Pointed arched doorway with hood mould and headstop. Romanesque south doorway with 3 orders of moulding and decorated capitals. Plank door. Nave to left of porch: A 2-light square headed Decorated window with hood mould and label stop. West window of 2-lights with Decorated tracery. North-west tower. 3 stages with small rectangular square headed lights and ground floor. First and second floors have Perpendicular openings incorporating C13 shafts and capitals. Embattled parapet. Diagonal and offset buttresses. Moulded plinth. String course to first and second floors. Nave has stone parapet with moulded coping and finials. Two 2-light Perpendicular clerestory windows. Interior: Decorated aumbry. Bracket piscina. Chancel arch has a capital with trumpet scallop decoration and another with nailhead. Wagon roof with floral bosses. North arcade of 3 bays with round piers, one with trumpet scallop decoration and another with nailhead. Pointed west doorway to tower. Chamfered arches. South arcade of 2 bays with chamfered arches. Octagonal font with plinth with ball flower, traceried stem and bowl with head decoration. Two C15 benches in chancel. Monuments in south aisle: alabaster tomb effigies of William d.1555 and Ann Sheldon. Brass to Hugh Humphrey d.1530, Stone engraved wall memorial to Thomas Taylor, Rector of the parish. d.1716. Wood and marble wall memoral to William Brent d.1675 with broken pediment, strapwork decoration and heads of lions and angel. Marble wall plaque to Elizabeth, wife of Christopher Smith, d.1799. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. V, 1949, pp. 6-9; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 1981, pp. 84-5).
Listing NGR: SP2648939944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 6-9
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 84-5
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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