Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045284
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045284
Date first listed:
15-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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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

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Slaley
National Grid Reference:
NY 97306 57758

Details

SLALEY SLALEY VILLAGE
NY 95 NE (North side)

9/307 Church of St. Mary.

15.4.69

GV II


Parish Church on medieval site, 1832 by Milton Carr; south porch and angle
buttresses 1907. Squared stone (coursed rubble on north) with raised quoins
and tooled ashlar dressings; slate roof. Nave with south porch and north
vestry, chancel Simple Gothic style. Chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses,
coped gables with moulded kneelers.

Nave has south porch with double doors under 5-pane fanlight in pointed arch
with spiral stops to hoodmould; coped gable with foliate cross finial. East
of porch 2 broad pointed windows in double-chamfered raised surrounds, similar
window in west end. On north of nave, blocked windows (to former gallery)on
either side of vestry; at south-west corner of vestry tall stack with
pedimented cap. Vestry has 16-pane sash in alternating-block surround on
east, with 9-pane sash in stone surround above; corniced stack on north gable.
Chancel has 2 windows on south similar to those in nave, and triplet of broad
lancets to east; finial cross on east gable.

Interior: Wide stilted segmental chancel arch of 1 chamfered order. Pulpit
of 1907 with pierced traceried panels and handrail; cornice with carved foliage.
Similar chancel screen. West window 1st World War memorial glass (soldiers
through the ages) by A.L. Moore and Son; similar glass in south-east window of
chancel.


Listing NGR: NY9730657758


This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
240678
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67917
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34252

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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