Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, ROMSEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094384
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ROMSEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094384
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ROMSEY ROAD
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, ROMSEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Copythorne
- National Park:
- New Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 30722 14652
Details
COPYTHORNE ROMSEY ROAD SU 31 SW 4/1 Church of St Mary
GV II
Parish church. 1834 by T Benham and 1891 by Butterfield. Walls of red brickwork in English bond with stone dressings, stepped buttresses (diagonal at corners),tall bands, window heads, eave fascia. Slate roofs. Nave of three bays with very narrow aisles, western tower incorporating the entrance lobby and west door, with taller chancel added at the second date. Coupled lancets, the eastern bay (original east end) having triple lancets beneath two lancets beneath two quatrefoils, two lancets to each wall of the chancel, one east end with higher quatrefoil window. Tower of three stages, with pointed and chamfered arches within hoodmoulds, a crenellated parapet and plain (cemented) corner pinnacles. Plain interior with slender columns, the arcading being opening timber framing, repeated at a higher level across the chancel. The lower chancel walls are panelled. The pulpit and lectern are on the line of the first step, half way related to the original layout. There is an octagonal font of C15 style. A western gallery is supported on slender columns. A Royal Coat of Arms (1834?) hangs on the north wall.
Listing NGR: SU3061014677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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