Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHACKLEFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029528
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHACKLEFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029528
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHACKLEFORD 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHACKLEFORD ROAD

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:
Shackleford
National Grid Reference:
SU 94067 44856

Details

SU 94 SW SHACKLEFORD CP SHACKLEFORD ROAD

7/136 Church of St. Mary

II

Church. 1865. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. Snecked Bargate sandstone
with ashlar dressings, timber framed porch and plain tiled roofs with
wooden shingled broach spire to centre. Cruciform plan with central
crossing tower. Large church in Early English style with lancet openings
to tower, louvred and joined by hood mouldings, zig-zag mouldings to
eaves. Octagonal stair turret to south east corner of tower. Clerestoried
nave with pentice roofed aisles, quatrefoil clerestory windows, four to
each side. Two-light windows to aisles with foliage capitals to mullions.
Buttressed west end with three large lancets to nave, one west window to
each aisle. Roundel window in nave gable. Apsidal chancel with corbelled
eaves and five lancet windows with foliage capitals to mullions. Planked
doors to west end with strapwork hinges flanked by arched panels and
double order to jamb shafts. Heavy gabled timber framed porch to south
with cusped bargeboards and cambered tie beam to crown post roof. Dog-
tooth moulding around entrance arch of porch. Doubled south doors in
stone dress, dog-tooth surround with jamb shafts.

Interior: stone and plaster. C19 fittings.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) page 451.


Listing NGR: SU9406744856

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Legacy System number:
288393
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 451

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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