Church of St Pancras
CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1242571
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Pancras
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1242571
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Pancras
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS
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 PANCRAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 71879 76791
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR THE-MOOR 2/260 Church of St Pancras 23.8.55
GV I
Parish Church. C15 "restored in 1874 and subsequent years". Tower and nave roof repaired after being struck by lightning in 1638. Tower, south and east sides of body of church of granite ashlar, remainder of granite rubble. Slated roofs. Nave, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, chancel, north and south chancel chapels, south porch, west tower; vestry, of some antiquity, on north side of north chancel chapel. Windows are Perpendicular and contain a considerable amount of unrestored work; detail is mostly in granite, apart from some heavily restored limestone at the east end. Arches are pointed, except for the north and south sides of the nave and south side of south chancel chapel which have 3 cinquefoiled lights under a flat arch. Tudor priest's door on south side of chancel. Blocked doorway with pointed arch in west wall of north aisle. South porch is single-storeyed; moulded inner and outer doorways with pointed arches, wagon-roof. Tower, plainly a later addition, is very fine and a famous local landmark. 3 stages; clasping buttresses with offsets, each of which carries a pinnacle. Crenellated parapet with large octagonal pinnacle at each corner. Heavily moulded west door. Unusually elaborate belfry openings of 3 lights. Interior: nave and chancel have a continuous arcade of 6 arches each side; octagonal columns with double-chamfered arches. Moulded tower arch with attached shafts. Transepts have moulded 4-centred arches of wood. Simple piscinas in south transept and chancel chapel, south wall of chancel. Stone rood stair in north chancel chapel. Wagon roofs throughout. Lower part of medieval wood screen, with painted figures, across nave and aisles. Some C17 granite tomb-slabs. Sources: R Dymond, ed., Widecombe, 1876, pp.89-98. Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1906, p.804.
Listing NGR: SX7188076788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442034
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dymond, R, Widecombe in the Moor, (1876), 89-98
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1906), 804
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (), 804
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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