Church (dedication unknown)

Church (dedication unknown), Hailes

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1154315
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:
Church (dedication unknown)
Statutory Address:
Church (dedication unknown), Hailes
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1154315
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
07-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Church (dedication unknown)
Statutory Address 1:
Church (dedication unknown), Hailes

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Church (dedication unknown), Hailes

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:
Stanway
National Grid Reference:
SP 05043 30147

Details

SP 03 SE
4/113


STANWAY,
HAILES,
Church (dedication unknown)

(Formerly listed as Hailes Church)

4.7.60

GV I

Parish church. C12, C14, C15, C17, restored C19, 1905 for H.
Andrews (datestone). Random rubble, ashlar dressings, ashlar
porch, timber-framed belfry, stone slate roof. Nave, chancel,
south porch. South facade: trefoil-headed lancet on left;
single-storey gabled porch, plinth, angled buttresses, wrought-iron
gate in arched opening, datestone above, parapet gable. Inside
boarded door in arched opening to nave. To right, trefoil-headed
lancet. Parapet gables; square bellcote at west end, 3 louvred
lights each face, pyramid roof; stone archway with gabled top for
sanctus bell on east gable. Chancel same width as nave but
slightly lower: lancet with cinquefoil head, trefoil over: bottom
of opening blind. To right wide, ashlar buttress; boarded door
under 3-centred arch, similar-width lancet over: pilaster
buttress. Parapet gable, base of cross on apex. East end 3-light
reticulated-tracery window, small quatrefoil over. North side,
chancel 2 windows as left on south; lancet to nave, trefoil head,
iron opening light; blocked doorway, trefoil head; roof as south.
West wall paired lancets.
Interior: medieval tiles and memorial slabs to floors, walls
plastered. Nave: semi-circular responds to chancel arch,
scalloped capitals, large roll to soffit pointed arch. Medieval
chancel screen, 3 lights each side doorway, tracery heads, vine
scroll on beam, short return on right against respond. Giant St
Christopher painted on north wall, hunting scene on south. 3 1/2 bay
roof, crown post trusses, post braced to tie beam and collar
purlin, exposed collar rafters. Chancel: base of rood loft stair
on left; trefoil-headed recess each side priest's door, double
piscina cut back; aumbry; floriate cross slabs in floor each side
of communion table. Dado panelling; C17 'L' plan pews each side
against screen, Puritan chancel arrangement. C14 wall paintings,
square grid with coats of arms on north side, saint in window
recess, mythical animals over windows, figures above wallplate,
painted across infill and ashlar pieces: south side similar but
grid diagonal with lions and eagles. Further traces of painting on
west wall chancel and north side of arch. Chancel roof, moulded
wallplate, facetted plaster ceiling. Square pulpit, panelled
sides, octagonal sounding board. Pews with plain ends, moulded
tops and front edges, probably C16. Panelled box pew at rear of
nave, fluted top to sides, cockshead hinges. Plain octagonal
stone font. Early C19 wall monument. Porch added 1905. Interior
little altered from C17.
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, 1970, Cotswold Churches,
1976)


Listing NGR: SP0504730148

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
134899
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, Cotswold Churches, (1976)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Church (dedication unknown)

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