Description

ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP
LEIGHLAND CHAPEL

4/80 Church of St Giles

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GV II II

Parish church. 1861-2 on site of earlier building. Architect C E Giles. Red sandstone random rubble, Bath stone
dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, decorative ridge tiles. Plan: 4 bay nave, South porch, West bell-cote, chancel,
North vestry. Plain Geometrical style. Single storey bell-cast gabled porch, coped verges and kneelers, string course,
arched entrance, 2 pairs of lancets and single sone to right, large stepped buttress, 2 lancets to chancel, 3-light
East window, heated vestry on North front, 4 pairs of lancets to nave with central stepped buttress, 2-light West
window flanked by buttresses, gabled ashlar bell-cote. Interior: rendered. Chancel: scissor truss roof. Foliage
decorated capitals to responds of pointed chancel arch. Similar foliage decoration to pulpit and spandrels of reredos.
East window dated 1889. Contemporary fittings included 2 parrafin lamps and a corona for candles. Wrought iron screens,
late C20 by Rachel Recketts. Medieval tiles inlaid round font. (VCH Somerset, Vol 5, forthcoming).

Listing NGR: ST0320836540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468916

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)