Church of St Mary East Quantoxhead, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Mary has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1057410
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
22 May 1969
Name
CHURCH OF ST MARY
Location
CHURCH OF ST MARY
Parish
East Quantoxhead
District
West Somerset
County
Somerset
Grid Reference
ST 13641 43656
Easting
313641.0000
Northing
143656.0000

Listed Building Description

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ST1343 EAST QUANTOXHEAD CP

13/75 Church of Saint Mary

22.5.69

GV II*

Parish Church. C14, refenestrated early C15, restored and redecorated 1698, vestry added, chancel partly rebuilt and church restored 1860. Blue lias random rubble, sandstone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. 2 bay nave, chancel, North East vestry, South porch, West tower. 3 stage crenellated tower, diagonal buttresses, 2-light bell openings, tiny lancet below string course, 3-light West window, square crenellated stair turret North West corner. South front 2-light windows flanking porch with 2-light octagonal chamfered aullioned window set below eaves right, gabled porch, chamfered arched opening, holy water stoop and lancet on East wall, chamfered 4 centred arch door, chancel 2-light mullioned window with hood mould and 2-light arched window flanking priest's door with scratch dial to right, 3-light East window, 2-light window under East wall of vestry, North front of nave two 2-light windows. Interior: unplastered. C19 arch braced chancel roof, ribbed and plastered barrel vault to nave. C19 pointed chancel arch, 4 centred arch doorway to vestry in reset plank and muntin screen; vestry on site of earlier chancel aisle. Tower arch moulded in 2 orders with ogee headed stair turret door. Blocked 4 centred arch door to rood loft, blocked rood loft, opening above and another blocked door centre North nave wall. Rood screen day be C14 in part, restored C19. originally had large loft, fine set early C16 bench ends, pulpit dated 1633, Jacobean newel turned alter rails, canopy tomb North wall of chancel to Hugh Luttrell, died 1522 and his son Andrew, died 1538. (Photograph in NMR; Kelly's Directory 1902; VCH Somerset Vol S forthcoming).

Listing NGR: ST1364143656