CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, FURZEDOWN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1093280
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FURZEDOWN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1093280
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FURZEDOWN LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FURZEDOWN LANE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Amport
National Grid Reference:: SU 29945 44202

Details

SU 2944 AMPORT FURZEDOWN LANE

8/9 Church of St. Mary

II* 21.12.60 Parish church. c1320, restoration of 1866 by Slater & Carpenter. Aisleless cruciform church with a central tower; the north transept and nave were virtually rebuilt in 1866 when the north vestry (appearing as a smaller north transept from the chancel), organ aisle and north porch were built new, and the nave extended by one bay to accommodate the font. The building is rendered, with flint walls for the work of 1866, with stone dressings, the roof being tiled. The windows are (except for the vestry) coupled lights with cusped heads supporting flamboyant roundels or ogee shaped trefoils (reproduced in the nave), with a 3 light east window and a high circular window in the west gable. The tower has a stone parapet, with a coved base decorated with heads, and small coupled lights to the bell stage; there are diagonal buttresses to the east wall. Within, the pointed and chamfered arches of the crossing are prominent, the nave and transepts of plain (restoration) appearance; the chancel is enriched by the traceried windows, a piscina, stepped sedilia of 3 ogee arches, and a floorcovered by tomb slabs (including a finely- lettered group of 5 in the sanctuary, of late C17 early C18). There are several wall monuments in the chancel with small slate slabs of 1653 and 1636, and larger classical monuments of 1723, 1753 and 1779, and in the north transept a classical monument of 1807. The font is an elaborate 'Perpendicular' design of 1865 with a wood cover. A particular treasure (in a glazed frame) is a C14 alabaster carving (found at nearby East Cholderton) of a St. John's Head, with an ornamental canopy and head flanked by the small figures of St. Margaret, St. Katherine, St. Peter, S. William of York, with a Resurrection at the base.

Listing NGR: SU2969644083

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Legacy System number:: 140013
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.