Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075995
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075995
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- 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.
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Solihull (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Balsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20699 75989
Details
BALSALL TEMPLE BALSALL 1. 5108 SP 27 NW 11/155 Church of St Mary A 8.9.61. GV 2. Built circa 1290 for the Knights Templars. Used by the Knights Hospitallers until 1540. Restored 1660's and used as chapel of adjacent almshouses from 1677. Parish church from 1863. Much restored in late C13 style by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1849. Rectangular plan with small south west corner turret, fragmentary remains of south porch fan vaulting. Interior: series of steps up to east end. C19 fittings, college chapel plan seating. C18 and early C19 wall monuments. Piscina, sedilia. Aumbry recess. VCH, IV, pp 88-90.
Church of Saint Mary, Temperlars Hall, North East Range, South West Range, Entrance Gateway and side Walls at the Lady Katherine Leveson Hospital, Vicarage and Temple House form a group.
Listing NGR: SP2070175995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 88-90
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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