Description

PONSONBY -
NY 00 NW
3/56 Ponsonby Church
(no dedication)
- II
Church. Probably medieval, with heavy restoration. 1840 and 1874. Stone
rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel
west tower and north vestry. Coped gables with crosses. South elevation of
5 bays; 2-bay nave has paired lancets; gabled buttress between nave and chancel,
which has 2-light flat-faced mullioned window and 2 small lancets, wall
incorporates head of straight-headed light, part of arch, and part of medieval
grave slab. East end has stepped triple lancets with rose window over; clasping
buttresses. North elevation has single lancet and 2 pairs of lancets, 2-bay
vestry has 2 gables, that to east smaller, lancets and east entrance. Entrance
to nave in projection under pentice, single order arch. Tower has paired
lancets to west single lancets to north and south, south stair turret under
hipped roof. 2-light louvred tracery bell openings, broach spire with
lucarnes. Interior: deep arch-braced collar roof, tower arch and vaulting; wall
mounted gas lamps and hanging oil lamps. Medieval chancel arch raised 1874.
Richly carved pulpit and stalls. Arch to vestry space. East window has stained
glass, 1875, Morris and Co; some earlier fragments to south window. Medieval
graveslabs and wall memorial, Thomas Curwen (died 1653, 2 figures, arms, in
dog-tooth border; pillar piscina.

Listing NGR: NY0420105605

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26377958

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback