Benchmark - St Mary the Virgin - Christon, Somerset
Posted by: SMacB
N 51° 18.679 W 002° 53.480
30U E 507573 N 5684451
Cut benchmark on the south east corner of St Mary the Virgin, Christon.
Waymark Code: WM16JPG
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/15/2022
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Cut benchmark on the south east corner of St Mary the Virgin church, Christon.
Square |
Easting |
Northing |
Mark type |
Description |
Height |
Order |
Datum |
Verified year |
Levelling year |
Metres above ground |
ST |
3796 |
5728 |
CUT MARK |
ST MARYS CH SE FACE E ANG |
42.190 |
3 |
'N' |
1966 |
1965 |
0.900 |
"Parish church (Anglican). C12, C14, C16, 1875. Rubble, squared quoins slate and clay tile roofs, raised coped verges. Nave, south porch, central tower, chancel. 3 bay nave with heavy weathered buttresses; neo-Norman west window has recessed colonnettes with scallop capitals and outer scallopped corbels which carry a decorated dripmould; similar windows north and south carry no inner order; slate pitched roof to plain gable. Gabled south porch, clay tile roof, arch-head opening and low stone seat around C12 doorway; inner arch has paired chevrons making lozenges on main face and return, then colonnettes with scallop capitals support a frieze of chevrons on 2 faces, all surmounted by drip decorated with greek key. Tower of 2 stages; first, plain has dressed stone at corners, single square lights at ground and belfry and a plain stair turret with one circular light and lean-to roof at north east corner; second stage has plain parapet above string course carried on decorative corbels, mainly grotesque and single lights below. Gabled chancel has some rubble in diagonal courses; neo- norman west window has 2 round headed lights in colonnettes with scallop capitals and small central oculus above in arched recess; restored 2 light north and south windows and south priest's door. Interior; 3 bay nave with wagon roof, perpendicular but 1536, large and small bosses alternate along spine, embattled wallplate, one nave window has cusped rear arch; central tower has two restored arches which take the motifs of the south door, colonnettes, twisted to nave arch, plain to chancel; above, paired chevrons making lozenges surmounted by greek key; groin vaulted tower has 4 heavy ribs which sit on grotesque dragon- like corbels; chancel, north and south windows have trefoil cusped rear arches. Fittings; C12 font, square with cross and chevron decoration on 3 sides, stands on plain circular capital on plinth; neo-Norman pulpit with colonnade; timber communion table and reredos of 1950; boiler screen of 1978 has some very fine carved timber detail. Tablet by T. King of Bath to Anne S.E. Gore, 1793. Glass; tower south window has mediaeval fragments; nave south window depicting Madonna and Child by W. Morris and Co."
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