Parish Church of St Mary

Parish Church of St Mary, Woolley

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130127
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Mary, Woolley

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130127
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Parish Church of St Mary, Woolley

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:: Parish Church of St Mary, Woolley

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Barham and Woolley
National Grid Reference:: TL1497074498

Details

TL 17 SW 11/4

BARHAM AND WOOLLEY WOOLLEY Parish Church of St Mary

28.1.58

GV II

Parish church now ruinous. Surviving ruined walls of west tower and doorway late C14, south nave wall and blocked doorway, south aisle wall and part of jamb to south doorway and buttresses and wall of south transept c.1300; the south transept and south aisle were rebuilt in 1914 and tower in 1932. Walls of pebbles and limestone rubble with limestone dressings. The blocked south doorway of nave has Romanesque chevron ornament, the west doorway of the tower is two-centred with double ogee moulding and with hollow-chamfered label and plain stops.

HISTORY: the church formerly consisted of a west tower with spire, a nave with north and south aisles, a small south transept chapel and a chancel. The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the Romanesque stone chevrons built into the south nave wall suggest the existence of a building here in the 12th century. The chancel, nave, aisles and transepts were built c1300. The nave was lengthened and the tower and spire built in the late 14th century. The chancel was restored in 1857; the south transept and aisle were rebuilt in 1907, and the north aisle restored in 1914. The nave arcades were strengthened and the tower and spire restored in the 1930s. The church was abandoned c1960.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: this church survives in a ruinous state, but the fragments of Norman fabric, and the more substantial fabric of c.1300 and of the C14, with the surviving west doorway, are important. It is a site of historical and social significance; the ruins and the churchyard, with headstones, bear witness to centuries of religious observance within this parish. Churches are often expressions of high art and have an iconic status within the nation's history.

Listing NGR: TL1497074498

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Legacy System number:: 54722
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 300
Page, W, Proby, G , The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 127

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.