Church Of St Mary The Virgin

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SU 75 SW GREYWELL

8/73 Church of St Mary The Virgin 24.11.61

- II *

C12, C13, C15, 1870. A small aisleless nave and western tower of Norman date, and a chancel restored (rebuilt) 1870. Red tile roof, lower over chancel. Walls are stone quoins, cement plinth, the chancel being of flint with stone dressings, a rood stair (c1500) projects on the north side as a semicircular turret with chequered walling of white stone and flint. Early English, Perpendicular and Victorian Decorated windows. Norman north doorway has dogtooth ornament, and a blocked south doorway. The tower has massive brick corner buttresses and some brick walling (late Cl7); the bell chamber and pyramid roof being clad in shingles. Inside there is a fine rood screen (c1500) on a later stone-walled base, a good octagonal C15 font, and Royal Coat of Arms of 1768. The north porch is Victorian, with a tiled gabled roof, a timber frame, with stone base.

Listing NGR: SU7153751279

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1978 IOE Records taken by Rebecca Swann; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Rebecca Swann. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project