Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099890
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- 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:
- 1099890
- 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:
- Fownhope
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 58103 34273
Details
SO 53 SE; 7/45
FOWNHOPE CP,
FOWNHOPE
Church of St Mary
26.01.67
GV
I
Parish church. C12 core with additions of mid-C13 and early C14, restored
1881, early C20 north porch. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings,
tiled roof, shingled spire. Nave, south aisle and north porch, central tower
and south chapel (now vestry), chancel.
North front: four-bay nave with
buttressing and raised verge, two windows with two trefoiled ogee-headed
lights and irregular quatrefoil to left of C20 gabled porch; central tower,
three stages with moulded string course and band of chevron ornament below
base of splay-footed spire. Semicircular-headed window with two
semicircular-headed lights to third stage, partly obscured by clock face, similar
smaller window situated slightly to right of centre to second stage, large
2-light traceried window to ground stage with doorway to left: chancel, raised
verge, two 2-light Y-tracery windows.
INTERIOR: nave, restored C15 or early
C16 trussed rafter roof; west wall, re-set C12 tympanum of former doorway
with seated figure of Virgin and Child surrounded by elaborate decorative
animal and scrolled motifs, south arcade of four bays in two pairs with
central double respond, eastern pair mid-C13 and C14 western pair, C12
western tower arch of two semicircular-headed orders, eastern arch of two
orders. Fittings: font, c1670, with octagonal bowl, stem and base, blank
arches to stem and fleur-de-lis in panels of bowl, extensively restored.
C18 font with circular bowl supported on elegant baluster shaped stem.
Large oak chest toward west wall of south aisle.
Monuments in chancel in
north wall, wall tablet commemorating Nicholas Lechmere, 1711, and Martha
his wife, 1763, stone tablet flanked by weepers, broken pediment with coat
of arms; south wall wall tablet commemorating Johanna Lechmere, died 1692,
tablet with open segmental pediment with putti and scroll and foliage ornament.
Chancel contains many monuments commemorating members of Lechmere family,
formerly of Fownhope Court (qv).
Listing NGR: SO5810034274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154891
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 80
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 132-3
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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