Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309131
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309131
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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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.
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 PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hennock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 84551 77383
Details
HENNOCK CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON SX 87 NW
5/116 Church of St Paul - GV II
Parish Church, orignally a chapel of ease. Built 1841-2 by G.G. Scott and W B Moffat, decorated and fitted by Medley 1846. Flint pebble walls with limestone ashlar dressings. Slated roofs with stone-coped gables and kneelers. Nave, chancel, north and south transepts. Bell turret with bell on west gable. Nave has 3 lancet windows each side. West front has 3 stepped lancets. Doorway with 2- centred arch below it. At either side, is a large limestone cross, set into the pebbles. The transepts each have 2 lancet windows with a smaller quatrefoil light above. In the apex of the gable a limestone cross. The south transept, which also serves as an entrance porch, has a doorway with 2-centred arch. Chancel has a stepped triple lancet east window, matching that at the west end. In north and south walls a single lancet. Good simple original interior. Interesting mid C20 glass in east window. Sources: N Pevsner, South Devon, 1952, p.79. White's Devon, 1850, pp.471-2. Church accounts, 1846-50 (Devon Record Office, 2922A add./PZ6).
Listing NGR: SX8455177383
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 79
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1850), 471-472
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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