Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, Yate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1128753
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, Yate
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1128753
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, Yate
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:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, Yate
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yate
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71370 82815
Details
ST 78 SW
7/219
YATE
CHURCH ROAD (west side)
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
3.3.61
GV
I
Parish Church (Anglican). C12; remodelled C13 and altered late C14/C15; restored 1859 (interior), 1879 (chancel) by R. Nevill and 1896-97 (the stair turret and the parapet of the tower) by W.D. Caröe; C20 additions to the north side. West tower; north aisle; nave and south porch; north and south transepts; chancel and north and south (Lady) Chapel. Random and coursed sandstone rubble with freestone (oolitic limestone) dressings; stone slate roofs.
West tower: Perpendicular style of three stages and diagonal buttresses; pierced and embattled parapet (1897) with corner and central crocketted pinnacles, the central ones rise from the head of an ogee cusped canopied niche between the blind two-light mullioned and transomed windows of the second stage; similar windows to third stage but the upper parts have pierced quatrefoils; four-light windows to first stage glazed to the west blank elsewhere. West door is C19 with moulded surround, square dripmould and carved stone; polygonal stair turret at north-east corner (1879).
North aisle: two three-light square headed Perpendicular style windows with cusped traceried heads and mouchettes, under drip moulds. North transept: window similar to west window. Chancel: windows as north aisle; east window of four-lights with cusped tracery heads; priest's door with moulded surround and four-centred head. South transept: four-light window as east window; heavily restored C12 window in west wall.
South porch: roll moulded, round headed door surround with two Perpendicular image niches above; south door is C15 in heavily moulded surround; C19 two bay arch-braced collar-beam roof.
Interior: four bay north arcade; the east bay occupies the space of a central tower, the collapse of which seems to have necessitated the rebuilding of the two eastern bays which have Perpendicular piers of wave mouldings between engaged columns with circular capitals; the west respond of the second bay rests on a C13 pier and the two westernmost bays of the arcade are C13 with keel moulded piers and coarsely cut floriate capitals. Two bay chancel with piers similar to the two western bays of the arcade; chancel arch and arches to transepts are Perpendicular in style. Font: C15, octagonal with quatrefoils around the bowl.
Wall painting: to west of north door a fragment of St. Christopher and a water mill. Reassembled fragments of medieval glass in north chapel. Remains of rood stair in north west corner of north chapel. The remainder of the fittings are modern and extremely plain.
Monuments: south chapel, brass to Alexander Staples, died 1590, with two wives and eleven children; north chapel, Richard Hill, died 1755, marble tablet with entablature, flat pyramid background with drapery swag and urn finial; south transept Thomas Stokes, died 1786, by Reeves of Bath, square marble tablet with entablature and draped urn. Ogee headed piscina in north chapel; four-centre headed piscina in chancel.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 October 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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