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St Andrew's Church, Stogursey

The Church of St Andrew in Stogursey, Somerset, England dates from the early 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church of St Andrew, now the parish church of Stogursey, was built as part of the Benedictine priory of Stogursey founded c. 1100-07 by William de Falaise, who first appears as the manorial lord in 1086. It is thought possible that his priory occupied an earlier religious site. It was granted to become a cell of the Abbey of Lonlay Lonlay-l'Abbaye (Orne) in Normandy, near to Falaise. John de Courcy, a member of the priory's patron family seated at Stogursey Castle, who gained power in Ireland, around 1183 granted land in the Ards Peninsula in County Down to Stogursey Priory: on that land was founded, before 1204, the Priory of St. Andrews of the Ards (also called Blackabbey) which similarly became a cell of Lonlay-l'Abbaye. The church was enlarged around 1180 when the apses were demolished and the chancel extended. The priory was dissolved around 1440, and it became a parish church. It was further altered in the 15th century, the nave was extensively restored in 1824 by Richard Carver and the chancel rebuilt between 1863 and 1865 by John Norton. The interior contains two Norman fonts. At floor level in the south arch is a sanctuary ring installed in the 13th century. In medieval England criminals could find a place of refuge in a church for up to forty days and then admit their crime or stand trial. If they admitted their felony they would forfeit their possessions and go into exile. The sanctuary ring in the Church of St Andrew was installed 1243 after a murderer, John de Rechich, was granted sanctuary and then absconded before his trial, which meant that the priory was liable for his fine. The tower holds six bells, the oldest of which dates from 1611. The parish is part of the Quantock Coast benefice within the Quantock deanery. See also Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Andrew's Church, Whitestaunton

The Church of St Andrew in Whitestaunton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Perpendicular church is built of Hamstone. It contains a nave and porch which were added in the late 14th century and in the late 15th century it was refenestrated and the north and south chapels added. In the early 16th century the tower and chancel arch were rebuilt, the south chapel widened and the west door added. Further restoration followed in 1882-3 and 1913. The interior includes a Norman font. In 2012 an appeal was launched to repair the bellframe in the tower. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Anne, Aigburth

The Church of St Anne is in Aigburth Road, Aigburth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall. Its architecture is an early example of the Norman Revival style. History The church was built in 1836–37 to a design by Cunningham & Holme. It was founded by a group of local merchants, John Moss, Charles Stewart Parker, John Abraham Tinne and Josias Booker and was consecrated in 1837. In 1853–54 broad transepts were added and the chancel was extended. The north and south galleries were removed in 1893–94 and in 1913–14 the chancel was further extended. The church was damaged in an arson attack by Suffragettes on 16 December 1913. The altar and choir stalls were burned during a period when this movement to obtain votes for women was increasingly militant. On 12 January 2025, Pam Knowles achieved a Guinness World Record by becoming the longest serving Sunday School teacher in the world, she has taught at St. Anne's for over 73 years. Architecture The church is built in ashlar stone with a slate roof in Norman Revival style. Its plan consists of a west tower flanked by a baptistry to the north and a stair bay to the south, a four-bay nave, north and south transepts, and a three-bay chancel with the organ loft to the north and a vestry to the south. The round-headed entrance is in the base of the tower with blind arcading and a diapered gable above it. Over this is a clock face surrounded by a large rose motif. The tower has paired two-light bell openings on each face over which is a cornice with corbels and a parapet with blind arcading. The east window consists of three lancets and a rose window. The west gallery is still present as are the galleries in the transepts. External features The gate piers are listed at Grade II. There are two pairs of gate piers, which are made in stone, and are also Norman Revival in style. They are octagonal, with features including arcading, corbels, and finials. Community The church adjoins St Margaret's Church of England Academy and is used at times as the venue for carol and other services. Images See also Grade II* listed buildings in Merseyside References
St Augustine's Church, West Monkton

The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The parish church has an 88 feet (26.8 m) tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example. Nikolaus Pevsner proposes that St Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building. The churchyard includes a stocks and whipping post under a canopy. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel

The Church of St Barnabas is a church in Queen Camel, Somerset, England. The church was built in the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. A former church in Queen Camel was the mother church to Somerton, Chilton Cantelo and the surrounding area before 1140. In the 12th century the church was given to Cleeve Abbey. The first recorded rector was in 1317. The church underwent Victorian restoration in 1888. The church has a 96 feet (29 m) high tower, built in five stages, which dates from around 1491, The tower contains a heavy ring of six bells. While St Buryan in Cornwall is home to the heaviest ring of six bells by the weight of the tenor bell alone, Queen Camel is the heaviest six in the world by total weight (all the bells combined). The interior contains memorials to many of the Mildmay family, who were Lords of the manor. There is a wooden rood screen and octagonal stone font supported by four large carved supports. The churchyard contains a Commonwealth war grave of a Royal Navy seaman of World War I. The parish is part of the Cam Vale benefice, which includes Corton Denham, Sparkford, Sutton Montis, West Camel and Weston Bampfylde, within the Bruton and Cary deanery. See also Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References External links Media related to St Barnabas, Queen Camel at Wikimedia Commons
St Bartholomew's Church, Cranmore

The Anglican Church of St Bartholomew in Cranmore, Somerset, England, dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The chancel was rebuilt in 1848 in a perpendicular early English style. It has a three-stage embattled tower, supported by buttresses with corner pinnacles, tracery and gargoyles. There is a stone fan vault under the tower. The interior of the church includes wall monuments, particularly to the Strode family, and Chetham family of Southill House. There is a funeral bier dating from 1597. The church falls within the benefice of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet which also includes St Aldhelm, Doulting, which is part of the archdeaconry of Wells. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Mendip List of towers in Somerset References
St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

The Church of St Bartholomew in Crewkerne, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. St Bartholomew's Parish Church stands on high ground to the west of the town. The first Saxon church was founded before the end of the 9th century as a "minster", or main church of a Saxon royal estate that included an area which later became the parishes of Seaborough, Wayford and Misterton. This church was replaced after the Norman Conquest with a larger stone cruciform building, with a central tower. This was almost completely rebuilt and enlarged in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. This is, for the most part, the church building visible today. It is an excellent example of the Perpendicular style with many unusual and individual features. These include the west front, the nave, the six-light aisle windows and the Tudor-style chapels and windows in the north east corner. The building material is golden-coloured Ham Hill stone, quarried a few miles north of Crewkerne. There is a notable pair of 'green man' carvings within the church. No major alterations have been made since the Reformation in the 1530s and 1540s, but there have been many changes to the interior to accommodate various phases of Church of England worship. Among these are an oven used for baking communion bread in the south east corner of the north chapel. During the Civil War, considerable damage was done including the destruction of nearly all of the medieval stained glass. William III of England worshipped in the church following his landing in the Glorious Revolution of 1689. By the early 19th century, all the medieval furnishings, except the Norman font had disappeared. New pews were made and the west galleries were added in 1808–11. The latest restoration that has left the church interior visible today, took place in the late 19th century; it was more sympathetic to the church's architectural character than many Victorian restorations. At this time, the central section of the west gallery was removed to reveal the great west window and the organ was relocated to the south transept. The pews date from around 1900 and have attractive carved bench-ends. Christ Church, a chapel of ease to St Bartholomew's, was built on South Street in 1852–54 to the designs of James Mountford Allen. The church was declared redundant in 1969, and demolished in 1975 to make way for the residential Christchurch Court. Former grammar school The church hall and parish office in Abbey Street, a building which stands immediately north of the church, dates from 1636. It was used by Crewkerne Grammar School (founded 1499) from then until 1882, when the school moved to a new building called de Combe House on Mount Pleasant. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Bartholomew's Church, Lyng

The Church of St Bartholomew at East Lyng in the parish of Lyng, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Anglican church is dedicated to St Bartholomew, and is thought to have been built by the monks who were displaced from Athelney Abbey when it was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1539. It stands on the site of an earlier fortress. The ornate three-stage tower, which was built around 1497, is of lias with hamstone dressings supported by set-back buttresses connected diagonally across the angles of the tower on the bottom two stages; these terminate as diagonal pinnacles on shafts at the third stage. The paired two-light bell-chamber windows have Somerset tracery flanked by attached shafts and pinnacles, with quatrefoil grilles. There are similar single windows on the stage below. On the stonework are hunky punks representing dragons with the one on the left side of the west face being a mixture between a Basilisk or Cockatrice and a Griffin. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo (Lyng)

La chiesa di San Bartolomeo a East Lyng nella parrocchia di Lyng, nel Somerset, in Inghilterra, è una chiesa che risale al XIV secolo ed è stata designata come edificio di interesse storico. La chiesa anglicana è dedicata a San Bartolomeo, e si pensa sia stata costruita dai monaci che furono spostati dall'Abbazia di Athelney quando fu sciolta dal re Enrico VIII d'Inghilterra nel 1539. È costruita sul sito di una precedente e antica fortezza. Note Altri progetti Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su chiesa di San Bartolomeo Collegamenti esterni https://web.archive.org/web/20160225231743/http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3086/ https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Lyng/StBartholomew https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101060114-church-of-st-bartholomew-lyng
Church of St Bartholomew, Ubley

The Church of St Bartholomew in Ubley, Somerset, England is a small medieval church originating from the 13th century with later additions. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church has no fixed pews. Features include a Jacobean pulpit and a chained copy of the ‘Paraphrases of Erasmus’ dated 1552. The 13th century stone font stone font has a square bowl. The pulpit is from the 17th century. The stained glass in the east window dates from 1877 and was painted by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier. On the north side of the church is the remains of a Fives court. It is part a joint Benefice of Blagdon with Compton Martin which is part of the deanery of Chew Magna and the Archdeaconry of Bath. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Bridget's Church, Chelvey

St. Bridget's Church in Chelvey, Brockley, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The church is dedicated to the Irish saint Brigid of Kildare. The building includes a Norman south doorway and the octagonal font. There is also an inscribed Purbeck marble slab in the Tynte chapel under the Jacobean altar table. It dates from between 1250 and 1275, and shows the tall figure of an unknown 13th-century knight, clad in a long surcoat, grasping a spear in one hand and the scabbard of a sword in the other. Near the pulpit is a replica sand-filled hour glass in an iron frame, previously used for preachers to time their sermons. The churchyard cross is 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high and sits on an octagonal base. At the top is a box and ball decoration which was added in 1877. In the late 20th century the building had fallen into a state of disrepair with water seeping into the building, damaging the stonework. In 2008 an appeal was launched which raised money for the restoration, new lighting and a new organ. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Catherine's Church, Drayton

The Church of St Catherine in Drayton, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. St Catherine's exterior is blue lias and golden hamstone. It was restored in 1855 by Maurice Davis of Langport and again in 1896. The 15th-century cross in the churchyard has a sculpture of St Michael with a sword and shield in the act of vanquishing a dragon. In 2002 plans to put a new floor in the tower provoked objections from parishioners and was eventually resolved by the Ecclesiastical Court. The rectory, known as Drayton Court, which dates from the early 19th century, is now a private house. The parish is part of the benefice covered by the Langport Area Team Ministry within the deanery of Ivelchester. Stained glass windows See also Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of Somerset towers List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Catherine's Church, Fivehead

The Church of St Catherine in Swell Lane, Fivehead, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It has a three-bay nave and two bay chancel. The vane is supported by buttresses. The door in the south porch has a Norman, Romanesque chevron arch. The six bells were restored in 2007. The interior includes a Norman font and has a Jacobean pulpit from 1634. The church is adjacent to Swell Court Farmhouse which is also Grade I listed. In the churchyard are two chest tombs, one dated 1619, which are also listed buildings. The parish is within the benefice of Curry Rivel with Fivehead and Swell which is part of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Christopher's Church, Lympsham

The Church of St Christopher in Lympsham, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It is known that Bartholomew de England was appointed rector at Lympsham in 1274, although the parish had been given by Ine of Wessex to Glastonbury Abbey in 690 remaining part of the Abbey estates until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. During the 19th century extensive restoration was carried out by Rev A. J. Stephenson and his son, J. H. Stephenson. Further refurbishment was undertaken in 1909. Archaeological exploration in 2001 uncovered a copper alloy coin from Bath dated 1670. The parish is part of the benefice of Brent Knoll, East Brent and Lympsham, within the deanery of Axbridge. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor List of towers in Somerset List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
Church of St Clement, Liverpool

The Church of St Clement is in Beaumont Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the deanery of Toxteth and Wavertree. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History The church was built in 1840–41 to a design by Arthur and George Yates Williams. A west porch was added later, and in 1892 the original straight flight of stairs leading up to the pulpit was replaced by a separate spiral staircase. In 1984 a screen was placed under the west gallery to provide a parish room. Architecture Exterior St Clement's Church is constructed in stone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave and a chancel with a shallow canted apse at the east end. Along the sides of the church are lancet windows between buttresses; at the corners the buttresses are gabled. At the west end of the church is a further projecting bay, narrower than the rest of the church, and with a steeper roof. This contains north and south doors, and the stairs leading up to the gallery. The west face contains three stepped lancet windows. On the summit is an octagonal bell turret with gabled openings, surmounted by a short spire with a finial. Projecting from this bay is a porch with a pointed entrance and gabled buttresses. At the east end of the church the apse has a hipped roof and a triple lancet window. Interior Inside the church there are galleries on three sides, with the organ at the west end. The galleries are carried on cast iron columns. A screen has been inserted under the west gallery to provide a separate enclosed area. At the east end the altar is placed in a shallow polygonal recess. Flanking the communion table are boards inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The chancel arch is plain, and bears an inscription. The pulpit is a two-decker with an integral reading desk. Its upper deck is carried on four iron columns, and is reached by a spiral staircase. The pews are box pews, some of which have been removed around the pulpit. The ceiling is a plaster vault painted with stars. Pollard and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series say of the interior: "This is a rare survival of an all but complete pre-Ecclesiological Victorian church". See also Grade II* listed buildings in Merseyside References
Church of St Cross, Clayton

The Church of St Cross, Clayton, Manchester, is a Victorian church by William Butterfield, built in 1863–1866. It was designated a grade II* listed building in 1963. History The land on which the Church of St Cross now stands was originally in the parish of St Mary Droylsden. In the early 1860s the land was gifted to Revd. Charles Henry Lomax by Peter Hoare. The Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield was invited to draw up plans for the new church and construction began in 1862. At the time of construction, Bishop Prince Lee was in charge of Manchester Diocese. Lee, a low churchman, did not take to the ornate decorative style of St Cross and initially refused to consecrate the parish church, despite the opening services happening in 1866. Bishop James Fraser eventually consecrated the church in 1874. Originally, St Cross was built without many stained glass windows. On the closure of the Church of St Peter, in nearby Oldham, in 1970, sixteen of its stained glass windows were gifted to St Cross and are now located in the nave. The churchyard contains the war graves of seven soldiers of World War I and two of World War II. Architecture and description The church is very tall, in Butterfield's trademark red brick, with blue brick and pale stone banding. The style is Middle Pointed. To the south-west, the church has a high tower, "narrow and tall, with slender angle buttresses and a steep pyramidal roof of banded slate, and a gabled south porch with 2-centred arched doorway". The interior has lost most of its furnishings but remains "unmistakably Butterfield". It has a timber-framed roof with five-bay arcades, with patterns of coloured stone and tiles that have been echoed in late 20th century stencilling. There is some notable stained glass of the patron saints of the British Isles. The church is a Grade II* listed building. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester Listed buildings in Manchester-M11 References Sources Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004). Lancashire: Manchester and the South East. The Buildings of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10583-5. External links Official website