Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Church Street, Great Shefford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113644
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Great Shefford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113644
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Great Shefford
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, Church Street, Great Shefford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shefford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 38017 75375
Details
SU 37NE
8/10
GREAT SHEFFORD
CHURCH STREET
Church of St Mary
6.2.62
II*
Church, C12 with C15 alterations and C19 roof and south porch. Tiled roof, flint and Ferricrete with Bath stone dressings. Nave, south porch and round west tower.
Tower: three stages, octagonal C15 top stage with crenellated parapet, windows with two centred arches and Y tracery to four faces, other stages have simple lancet windows. Simple nave and chancel with gabled parapets.
South elevation: two square headed three-light windows with label moulds flanking gabled south porch with recessed two centred arched door, large three-light window with cusped intersecting tracery and two lancets to chancel.
East window C19 insertion, tall pointed opening of four cinquefoil lights with transom and panel tracery.
North elevation: central outshut containing organ, three lancets to chancel two lancets flanking north door which has two centred arch with simple chamfers.
Interior: plastered, simple roof, three arched trusses to chancel springing from plain corbels. Reset memorial stone on north wall to Sir George Browne died 1678, plain piscina with stone shelf, late C19 stone pulpit, reset font, C12 with carved flower and leaf ornament on C19 base, re-set C15 canopied niche in north wall with C19 carving of Good Shepherd.
Listing NGR: SU3801775375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 148
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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