Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127918
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127918
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-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.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Wickham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 61206 49214
Details
WEST WICKHAM TL 6149 18/128 Church of St 22.11.67 Mary GV II* Parish Church. Mainly C14 with restoration of c.1900. Coursed flint with clunch and limestone dressings, tiled roofs. West tower, nave, south porch and north chapel and chancel. West tower of four stages, with blocked parapet and three-stage diagonally set buttressing. Restored reticulated tracery to west window. Newel stair turret in south west angle. Aisleless nave, c.1350 with south porch. South wall has three windows, restored, of cinquefoil lights. South porch has two centred outer arch of one continuous wave and one ogee moulded order. Inner archway of two continuous ogee moulded orders. Chancel: c.1320. Three restored windows of clunch, of two cinquefoil lights with reticulated tracery in two-centred arches. East window of similar period, restored. North chapel added C15. Two blocked windows, clunch, with vertical tracery. Blocked doorway on west side. North doorway to nave of clunch. Interior: two-centred west tower arch of three chamfered orders on high chamfered base. Roof in four bays. Braced tie beams and collar. Tie beam nearest chancel arch enriched with chevron ornament and the date 1615 is carved on it. North chapel now organ chamber. Reset C13 arch of two chamfered orders on half octagonal responds. Chancel arch of two centred arch on three shaft responds. Chancel has moulded string at sill height and a label carried above the rear window arches and teminating in a mask head on either side of east window. Two niches flank the east window, each with trefoil head as is the arch to the piscina in the south. Monument: north wall of chancel. Henry Harrison (d.1690). Black marble tablet in bolection moulded frame flanked by Corinthian pilasters.
R.C.H.M. Record Card (1951) Pevsner: Buildings of England, p479
Listing NGR: TL6120649214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 479
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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