Remains of Church of St Mary Approximately 215 Metres to North West of the Flags
REMAINS OF CHURCH OF ST MARY APPROXIMATELY 215 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF THE FLAGS, BROUGHTON BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055415
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Church of St Mary Approximately 215 Metres to North West of the Flags
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CHURCH OF ST MARY APPROXIMATELY 215 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF THE FLAGS, BROUGHTON BANK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055415
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Church of St Mary Approximately 215 Metres to North West of the Flags
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF CHURCH OF ST MARY APPROXIMATELY 215 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF THE FLAGS, BROUGHTON BANK
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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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF CHURCH OF ST MARY APPROXIMATELY 215 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF THE FLAGS, BROUGHTON BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50116 23959
Details
SJ 5023-5123 BROUGHTON C.P. BROUGHTON BANK, SJ 50112 23960 Yorton (north side)
16/5 Remains of Church - of Saint Mary approx. 215 metres to north- 28.10.60 west of The Flags (formerly listed as Ruins of old Church of Saint Mary, including remains of cross)
GV II
Parish church, remains of. Late C12, partly demolished and ruined after 1858. Roughly dressed yellow/grey and red sandstone. Remains of chancel, approximately 10 x 7 metres and standing up to approximately one metre high. Cranage and Pevsner describe a number of windows, doors and other architectural features, but none were evident in the ivy-clad ruins at the time of survey (December 1985). The old church was replaced by a new building on Church Road to the south (q.v.) in 1858. It formerly consisted of a nave, chancel, porch and bellcote and is said to have had a C12 chancel arch. It was formerly a chapelry of the church of St. Chad, Shrewsbury. In the new church of St. Mary (q.v.) there is a watercolour of the old church and churchyard before 1858, and there is also an oil painting of the ruins. The remains of a churchyard cross (q.v.) and a number of chest tombs stand to the south of the ruins. Photographs in the Shropshire Libraries Collection show the north and east chancel walls still standing high with 2 small east windows, chamfered north doorway, chamfered trefoiled piscina and south-east buttress. The Flags is not included on this list. D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, Shrewsbury churches, pp. 852-3; B.O.E., p.87; Kelly and Co., Post Office Directory of Shropshire (1856), p.25; Shropshire Libraries, photographs collection.
Listing NGR: SJ5011623959
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 259998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 852-3
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 87
Post Office Directory in Post Office Directory of Shropshire, (1856), 25
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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