Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HOMINGTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023807
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HOMINGTON VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023807
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HOMINGTON VILLAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HOMINGTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coombe Bissett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 12263 25995
Details
SU 12 NW COOMBE BISSETT HOMINGTON VILLAGE (south side)
4/67 Church of St. Mary The Virgin
23/3/60
II*
Anglican parish church. C14 with tower of early C17 and restoration of 1860s. Flint with limestone dressings, tiled roof with ridge tiles and coped verges. Consists of nave, south and north aisles, chancel and south-east tower. C19 west door with hood mould and trefoils in spandrels, above is 4-light Perpendicular window with hood mould, buttresses to either side. West ends of aisles windowless, south aisle has blocked Tudor- arched doorway to west. South side of aisle has 2-light C16 style window with hood mould to left, to right is 3-light trefoiled C16 style window with hood mould. 3-stave tower has diagonal buttresses, pair of lancets to 1st stage, small square-headed light to 2nd stage and bell stage with string course and pair of square- headed lights with louvres to each face, battlemented parapet with string course and pyramidal tiled roof. South side chancel has two cusped lancets, east has group of three lancets and north side has a single lancet. East window of north aisle is 2-light C16 style window with hood mould and relieving arch. North side aisle has two 2-light C16 style windows with hood moulds. Interior: Nave has 4-bay arch-braced tie-beam roof on carved stone corbels, early C14 south arcade of three tall double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers with responds, north arcade has four shorter pointed arched on octagonal piers; no responds. Double- chamfered chancel arch. Plain piscina on south wall of chancel, late C14 ogee-headed piscina on east wall of north aisle. Victorian pews, pulpit and font at west end. Late C20 glass in east windows. Marble wall tablet in north aisle with arms of Wyndham family; Edmund Wyndham died 1723. Several good C18 floor tablets with fine lettering, especially in north aisle. Flagstone floors throughout. _ (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: SU1226325995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319447
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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