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Listed building outline: BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE BREAKAWAY SPORTS CLUB 390694

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BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE BREAKAWAY SPORTS CLUB 390694

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.521024 50.460973,-3.521042 50.460972,-3.521041...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1206804
• name: BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE BREAKAWAY SPORTS CLUB
• notes: Parish church, redundant and now in use as sports centre. 1894 by Watson and Watson on the site of an earlier chapel. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sandstone dressings; slate roof, ornamental ridge tiles. Late example of Early English/Decorated Revival. PLAN: Nave; apsidal chancel; north and south aisles; north and south transepts; north porch into transept; chapel and vestry off chancel; north west tower. The conversion has involved walling off the aisles and inserting a floor in the nave with steps up from the former chancel. EXTERIOR: 3-sided apse with 2-light Decorated traceried windows. Transept windows 4-light and transomed, transepts with angle buttresses. Porch on west wall of north transept with a moulded 2-centred doorway with nook shafts. 5-bay aisles have lean-to roofs; bays divided by buttresses with set-offs; clerestory bays divided by pilasters. Triple lancets to aisles; lancets to clerestory. 3-light Decorated traceried window in west end of south aisle. 7-light west window with Geometric Decorated tracery. 3-stage tower with angle buttresses and a 3-sided stair turret on the east side; tall stone spire supported by flying buttresses. Tower has a richly moulded 2-centred arched west doorway and pairs of large lancets to the other faces. Frieze of blind trefoil-headed arcading to bottom stage. Belfry stage has big paired louvred lancet openings and Y tracery. Trefoil-headed arcade forms parapet. Octagonal corner pinnacles to angle and flying buttresses have blind trefoil-headed arcade and conical spire. 2-light lucarnes with Y tracery to 4 sides of spire. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisles have octagonal piers with stiff-leaf carved capitals. Nave open roof survives in first-floor gymnasium: arched braced on stiff-leaf carved corbels. Chancel polychromy, including stencilled wall decoration and the painted roof survives from the level of the springing of the window arches. Good stained glass intact: 3 east windows by Drake; excellent west window of 1907 designed by Maurice Drake and executed by Drake and Son (Devon Nineteenth-Century Churches Project). A very late example of Early English revival. The spire is an important element in the townscape. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.848; Brooks C: Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project Archive). Listing NGR: SX9215863451
• reference: 390694
• start-date: 1975-01-10