CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, DUNSTALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1038486
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, DUNSTALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1038486
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, DUNSTALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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, DUNSTALL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dunstall
National Grid Reference:: SK 18740 20430

Details

DUNSTALL C.P. DUNSTALL SK 12 SE 5/23 Church of St Mary - - II*

Parish church. 1852-3, by Henry Clutton for Peter Arkwright, succeeded by John Hardy, both of Dunstall Hall. Random coursed, dressed and squared Hollington stone; tiled roof with parapets. Loosely Decorated style, south-west tower and spire, porch, nave, south aisle, chancel. Tower: of 3 stages on plinth with diagonal buttresses of 2 stages (gabletted to head of south-west); circular stair tower set against south-east angle; broach spire on foliate corbelled cornice; quatrefoil-pattern, fretted parapet inset from eaves and linked to spire by short flying buttresses; large gabled 2-light lucarnes to each face with gargoyles at eaves. Paired pointed labelled single-light openings to bell chamber; ball flower intrados lancets to lower stages with quatrefoil opening to head of stair tower. Porch: artfully set against stair tower; steeply gabled buttresses run in the line of pitch give the impression of a triangle, labelled pointed arch, ball flower to intrados run down to short pilasters; trefoil-headed south door with elaborate strap hinges; the porch has a stone tunnel vault with transverse ribs. South aisle: of 2 bays; lean-to against nave, on plinth and with string at cill level; 2-stage buttress at angle; trefoil-headed lancets; paired to left and single to right of south face, 2-light pointed labelled window to east face. Chancel: of similar detail to aisle, set lower than nave, of 2 widely-spaced bays; steeply pointed and labelled 2-light windows with quatrefoil tracery to head; trefoil-headed Priest door to centre. 3-light pointed East window. Lean- to vestry to north side. Interior:. 4-bay nave, arcade to south; circular columns, pointed arches and foliate capitals, pointed chancel arch on corbelled pilasters; vaulted tower arch, braced and boarded nave and chancel roofs; the chancel is completely lined in alabaster with tripartite stone reredos. Pulpit and font of Caen stone, the former circular and in floral diaper pattern, the latter square on 4 supports, with low-relief carved sides. The stalls are fronted by blind geometric tracery. Glass: the East window is by Willement, the second South window (chancel) by Burlison and Grylls. B.o.E.

Listing NGR: SK1874020430

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 273601
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.