Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040666
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040666
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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 GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orlingbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 85952 72362
Details
ORLINGBURY THE GREEN SP87SE (North side) 2/280 Church of St. Mary 02/08/72 GV II*
Church. c.1843 by R.C. Hussey. Lias and limestone ashlar with lead roof. Cruciform plan with central tower and south porch. Decorated style. South elevation of chancel of 2-window range of 2-light windows with small south door between. The east window is a circular rose with a niche above. North elevation of chancel is similar to south with a one-bay single-storey vestry projection. Shallow gabled roof with castellated parapets and finial. South transept of one-window range with a 4-light south window, 3-light east window and door opening to west. Shallow gabled roof with castellated parapets and finial. North transept is similar with stair turret at junction with the nave. South elevation of nave of 4 bays, 4-window range of 2-light windows. Shallow gabled roof with castellated parapet and finial. Gabled porch in blank bay to left of centre. West elevation of nave has 5-light window with roundel in the tracery. North elevation of nave is a 4-window range similar to the south. 2-stage buttresses between windows and at all corners. Central tower of 2 stages with gabled ngle buttresses. Central roundels in each face of lower stage with clock face within that to south. Quatrefoil frieze between stages. 3-light bell-chamber openings to each face of upper stage. Castellated parapet with octagonal gabled and crocketted pinnacles at corners. Interior: double ribbed and chamfered arches at the crossing. Arcaded reredos to east end. The furnishings are probably all of c.1843. C19 stained glass to all chancel windows with the exception of the east window which is C20. Early C20 stained glass to north-east nave window. Monuments: alabaster effigy of a knight c.1375 reset in alcove in north wall of chancel. Brasses to William Lane died 1502 and wife in south transept. Two C18 marble tablets to Sturgess family in chancel. Gothic style wall tablet by R.C. Hussey to Sophia Bridges died 1853 on south wall of chancel. Various C18 reset and C19 marble tablets to Young family on west wall of south transept and two C19 Gothic styie tablets probably by R.C. Hussey also to Young family on east wall of south transept. C19 font in south transept. The rebuilding of the church was undertaken in 1843 by A.A. Young of Orlingbury Hall and the Rector, B.G. Bridges, at a cost of £4,500. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.361).
Listing NGR: SP8595272362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 361
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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