Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078203
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12302/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078203
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- 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:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Craswall
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2814736279
Details
SO 23 NE
1/1
26.1.67
CRASWALL CP
Church of St Mary
II*
Parish church. Early C15, C17 south porch, internal wall separating
western part of nave probably of C18, restored 1883. Sandstone rubble,
timber-framed bell turret with weatherboard cladding, stone slate roofs.
Nave with bell turret and south porch, chancel. Nave and chancel of six
bays; west bell turret with pyramidal roof; south front, small gabled
dormer with casement window toward centre, one square-headed window
opening to left and two similar square-headed 2-light windows of 1883
restoration to right of gabled C17 south porch; C15 inner doorway with
moulded jambs and 3-centred head; the two windows to right flank a further
doorway probably of C15 date with chamfered jambs and 2-centred head;
early C15 square-headed east window survives with three cinquefoiled-ogee-
headed lights, no windows on north wall with only traces of one blocked
square-headed window on exterior at eastern end; continuous stone bench
runs along the east and south sides of the chancel and the east side of
the south porch. Interior: two western bays of nave are separated from
the remainder of the church by the added wall and now used as a vestry,
access through south porch and through a later square-headed doorway in
interior, formerly an arched opening; renewed roof presumably contemporary
with dividing wall; remaining four bays of nave and chancel with braced
collar-beam trusses blocked below the trusses may indicate the former
existence of tie-beams, three rough tie-beams have been added at a later
date, soffit of roof is boarded, traces of painted foliage decoration
survive on purlins of eastern bay; moulded and embattled wall-plate. To
west of nave against inserted wall is a C18 wooden gallery lit by the
dormer window; south wall of chancel, piscina with two drains not in situ;
church retains two C18 oak communion tables; font of 1912. The east window
and piscina are reputed to have come from Craswall Priory. The vestry
was used as a school room during C19. To the north of the church is a
shallow rectangular depression said to have been a Fives Court; to the
north-west is a further depression said to have been used as a cockpit.
[BOE, p 107; RCHM Vol I, p 42).
Listing NGR: SO2814736279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355310
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 42
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 107
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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