Ashill Church
ASHILL CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106479
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ashill Church
- Statutory Address:
- ASHILL CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106479
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ashill Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHILL CHURCH
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:
- ASHILL CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Uffculme
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08903 11329
Details
ST 01 SE UFFCULME ASHILL 4/143 Ashill Church - - II Chapel of ease with hall attached. Built in 1882 to designs by R M Fulford. Red brick in Flemish bond with Ham Hill stone dressings; tiled roof, the chancel with crested ridge tiles. Plan: nave, south porch, chancel; bellcote at east apex of nave gable wall above chancel arch; hall to north, set transeptally, is divided from the church by a removable internal glazed partition. Exterior. South side: porch set well to the west, under catslide, but with 3-bay front, the central chamfered entrance arch under small gable, and flanked by 2- light square-headed windows set high under eaves. Nave south wall with a set of triple and double trefoil-headed lancets with buttress between. Chancel with single and paired lancets. Stone bellcote with pyramidal roof and trefoil-headed openings to west and east, the whole corbelled out over nave east gable wall. 3-light Decorated east window, with diagonal buttresses to east wall. West end with triple lancets under brick superordinate window arch. Clasping buttresses. North side: transeptally placed hall, the roof half-hipped, treated with a variety of window types, and a tall external stack to the east. Lancets to nave and chancel. Interior: nave of 4 bays; double-chamfered chancel arch. Roof principals scissor- braced with arched brace collars. Low chancel screen and contemporary chancel furniture and nave benches; sanctuary with tiled floor and dado. Patterned glass survives throughout, probably by Drake. Half-glazed vertically-sliding partition between nave and hall. Summary: a carefully organised design successfully integrating secular and ecclesiastical components, with imaginative use of materials and attention to detailing, all done on a limited budget. A good example of this important C19 Devon architect's work.
Listing NGR: ST0890311329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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