Description

SEDGEHILL CRATE LANE
ST 82 NE
(west side)
10/104 Church of St Katherine
6.1.66
GV II*
Anglican parish church. C14, C15, C17, 1882 restoration. Dressed
limestone, Welsh slate roof with coped verges. West tower, nave,
chancel with lower roof, south porch. Gabled porch with chamfered
semi-circular-headed doorway, coped verge and cross finial, C18
stone tablet over door records names of churchwardens; date
illegible, C19 double doors with ornamental hinges. Nave has C19
two-light geometric style window to left and two to right of porch;
walls are C19. Chancel has C19 cusped lancets to north and south
sides, diagonal buttresses and original C14 three-light east window
with reticulated tracery. North side of nave has two 2-light C19
windows to left of 1880s organ chamber with cusped lancet, one 2-
light window to right. Three-stage C15 tower with moulded plinth,
diagonal buttresses, offset string courses; north side has
chamfered light to middle stage, west side has recessed chamfered
Tudor-arched doorway with C19 double doors, 3-light Perpendicular
window over, bellstage has 2-light C15 louvred windows, south side
has cusped lights. Attached rectangular stair turret on south side
with loopholes, plain parapet with clasping buttresses.
Interior: Nave has 6-bay C19 roof with tie-beam or collar trusses.
C15 moulded pointed tower arch. 1880s north organ chamber with
moulded arch on half-cone corbels, brass plaque on north wall of
nave records restoration and installation of organ in 1882 by Vesey
family. C19 pointed chancel arch, 2-bay C19 braced collar truss
roof, polychrome tiled floor. Fittings: C19 octagonal stone font
in tower, C19 polygonal wooden pulpit, C19 seating. Chancel has
1880s stained glass in east, south and north windows in memory of
members of the Vesey family, C19 communion rail and panelling in
C17 style.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1971)

Listing NGR: ST8664528255

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543636

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)