Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1023928
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1023928
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Redlynch
National Park:
New Forest
National Grid Reference:
SU 21123 20164

Details

REDLYNCH CHURCH HILL SU 22 SW (north side) 7/199 Church of St. Mary

II

Anglican parish church. 1837, restored 1902. Probably by James Deane. Buff-coloured Flemish bond brick, Welsh slate roof. Plan: nave, short chancel, south porch. Porch has Tudor-arched doorway with cusped spandrels, double studded doors, coped verge to gable and pinnacles. South side of nave to right has two 2-light Tudor- arched windows with cusped lights and transoms. Diagonal buttresses to corners, coped verges with kneelers to roof. South and north sides of chancel have one 2-light Tudor-arched window with cusped lights, to east is plain 2-light pointed window, probably restored. North side of nave has four 2-light Tudor- arched windows with cusped lights, buttresses between. West end has 4-light Tudor-arched window, above is gilded clock face and limestone octagonal bellcote with ogee capping and pointed openings. Interior: porch has inner double doors with arched panels. Nave has 5-bay roof with vertical struts to principals from tie-beam, with cusped bracing at principals like pointed arches. Plain plaster walls, blind pointed arch over door. West gallery mostly dismantled 1951, but stairs with stick balusters and doors with arched panels remain. Original fittings include octagonal limestone font at west end of nave, stone altar and reredos with traceried panels and ogee hoodmould over east window with pointed hoodmoulds and attached shafts to niches either side. Polychrome tiled floor to chancel. Pews and choir stalls are late Victorian. Some good stained glass to members of Morrison family of Hamptworth Lodge (q.v.), the north and south chancel windows by Clayton and Bell, 1911, the east window unsigned of 1895. Rest of windows are diamond leaded. The church was founded as a chapel to Downton, Redlynch being part of the large Downton parish, until 1895. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU2112320164

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
319732
Legacy System:
LBS

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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