CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, TURVILLE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1125644
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, TURVILLE VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1125644
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, TURVILLE VILLAGE

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, TURVILLE VILLAGE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Turville
National Grid Reference:: SU 76701 91153

Details

SU 79 SE TURVILLE TURVILLE VILLAGE (south side)

3/182 Church of St. Mary

21.6.55

GV II*

Parish church. Nave originally C12 with C14 chancel; W. tower completely rebuilt early C16; S. porch probably C18; N. aisle dated 1733; N. vestry dated 1900. All much restored except for tower. Flint with stone dressings, rendered chancel, brick N. aisle. Tiled roofs. W. tower of 2 stages has moulded plinth and string, battlemented brick parapet with dripmould, and diagonal buttresses. Early C16 openings with 4-centred heads and Tudor hoodmoulds, 2-light to bell-chamber and W. side, single light to S. W. door with moulded 4-centred arch and hoodmould. N. side of nave has later brick buttresses, blocked door with pointed chamfered arch, and lunette. S. side has 2 restored 2-light traceried windows, single cusped light to left, and S. door with pointed arch of 2 orders, the inner roll-moulded, the outer chamfered. Brick porch with rendered gable. N. aisle has 2 gables to N., and rusticated brick quoins. C20 door between aisle and vestry. Chancel has restored Decorated windows similar to S. side of nave: 2 2-light to S., 3-light to E. Ogee S. door. Interior: tower has semi-circular niche in N. wall, and C14 chamfered arch to nave. Nave has fine crown post roof of 4 bays, and C18 2-bay N. arcade with semi-circular arches. C14 chancel arch, 2-centred and chamfered with broad flat soffits. Chancel completely restored, with cusped piscina, arch to vestry of 1900, and carved foliage frieze along E. wall. Fittings: medieval tub font; re-sited C15 carved wooden panel with cusped tracery and rosettes in tower; 4 C16-C17 pews; some heraldic stained glass in N. aisle. Monuments: N. aisle has marble monument to members of Perry family c.1740, with inscription tablets, flanking scrolls, broken cornice,pair of carved urns and heraldic cartouche. Wall tablet to William Butlin and family 1817. RCHM I p. 297-298.

Listing NGR: SU7670191153

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Legacy System number:: 46834
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

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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.