Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024484
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALCESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024484
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALCESTER ROAD
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALCESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Studley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07431 63469
Details
This List Entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/04/2016
STUDLEY ALCESTER ROAD
SP06SE (East side)
4/190 Roman Catholic Church of St.
Mary
GV II
Roman Catholic Church. 1853. Designed by Charles Hansom. Regular coursed lias
with moulded limestone cornice and dressings. Old tile roofs with moulded stone
coped gables and kneelers. Nave, chancel and south porch. Gothic Revival style.
4-bay nave, 2-bay chancel. 2-storey porch has angle buttresses flush with front
wall. Arched doorway of 2 chamfered orders with hood mould. 2-light window
above. Moulded south doorway inside has hood mould with head stops and plank
door. Chancel has diagonal buttresses and 2 buttresses to north side, 3-light
east window. All other windows of 2 lights. Plate tracery with quatrefoils
throughout. Nave has buttresses and diagonal buttresses. North side has
protecting gabled north-west bay. 2-light window with transom and shouldered
lower lights. West front has trim 2-light windows with hood moulds, and lancets
below. Central buttress against canted sides of stair turret. Gable has moulded
trefoil window. Bellcote with altered top; bell removed. On south side is a
single storey link to the Presbytery. 2 small casements. Interior: chancel has
piscina recess, with shelf in place of basin. Painted and stencilled panelled
wagon roof. Richly carved Decorated style stone altar with arched niches,
statues and ogee canopies. 2 carved reliefs. Carved stone altar. Chancel arch of
2 chamfered orders without imposts. Hood mould with foliage stops. Elaborate
image niche to each side with richly carved ogee canopies and angel corbels,
with statues, of the Virgin and Child to left and St. Joseph to right. Nave has
panelled west gallery. Late C20 glazed screens below. Arched scissor braced
roof, supported on painted colonnettes and corbels. Small side chapel below
gallery. Shouldered doorway to stair turret with winder stairs. Fittings: altar
of 4 Early English style stone shafts. Original pews. Stained glassy East window
1860 by Hardman. Forms part of a group with attached Presbytery (q.v).
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.423).
Listing NGR: SP0743163469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305537
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 423
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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