Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363898
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363898
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET
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 GILES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lea and Cleverton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95719 86284
Details
ST 98 NE LEA & CLEVERTON THE STREET, Lea (north side)
6/104 Church of St Giles
28.10.59
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. C15 west tower, the remainder of 1878. Squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings and ashlar to copings and tower parapet, clay tile roofs. Nave and chancel in one, west tower, north aisle and south porch. Single, 2 and 3- light C15 style fenestration under flat heads to nave and chancel; 5-light east window. North aisle has starved 3-light C14 style fenestration under pointed heads doorway and buttresses with set- offs. Three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses with set-offs, moulded string courses, north-east corner stair turret and embattled parapet. West face with blocked doorway and 3-light C15 pointed-arched window above to first stage and oblong opening to second; 2-cusped-light bell openings with slate louvres to all faces. Sundial on south-east buttress. Gabled south porch with pointed-arched entrance and inner trefoil-cusped archway: plank door. Interior: Early English style 5-bay north arcade; wagon roofs throughout. Fittings: C15 font at tower arch with octagonal bowl on tapered C19 stem; 1878 stained glass to chancel south-east window;: wall tablet on aisle north wall to Baker family (1849); I.C.B.S: board to left of tower arch recording 1878 restoration. (N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST9571986284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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