Church of St. Mary

Church of St Mary, Church Hill, East Ilsley

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1136120
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address:: Church of St Mary, Church Hill, East Ilsley

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1136120
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Mary, Church Hill, East Ilsley

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, Church Hill, East Ilsley

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Ilsley
National Grid Reference:: SU 49330 80918

Details

SU 48 SE 3/30

EAST ILSLEY CHURCH HILL Church of St. Mary

24.11.66

I

Church. C13 with C19 additions and C15, C17 and C19 restorations. Render over flint with dressed Bath stone quoins and dressings, Bath stone ashlar north aisle and porch; tiled roofs, slate roof on north aisle and porch. Nave, chancel, west tower and south aisle C13; north porch and north aisle C19.

North elevation: to left chancel with two trefoil headed single light windows; to centre north aisle with three-light windows under square heads and label moulds flanking gabled north porch; to right tower; two stages with plinth, angle buttresses and crenellated parapet, stair turret in angle between tower and nave, one single-light window off centre in first stage, clock in upper stage beneath two-light window with cusped ogee-headed lights under label mould, grotesque head at base of parapet.

South elevation: to left-tower with blocked single-light window in upper stage; to centre-south aisle with lancets flanking central two-light square headed window enlarged below original cill to form mullion and transom window, memorial slab to W.A. Black Aller died 1753 to right, two mass clocks cut into right quoin of aisle; to right-chancel with low brick wall across angle between aisle and chancel, one trefoil headed window, central porch with flintwork exposed and four-centred arched doorway, one segmental pointed arched window with chevron pattern drip mould.

Interior: plastered walls, Chancel: tall crown post roof of two bays, two lancets with wide rear arches to north and south walls, lancet and oculus to east wall aumbry under segmental pointed arch with chevron carving to north wall; Chancel arch: four-centred arch with double chamfer springing from carved, heads at corbels. Nave: tall crown post roof of three bays, three bay arcade to south of chamfered pointed arches on short columns with moulded bases and simple caps, small grotesque head carved at springing of eastern arch, three bay arcade to north of four-centred arches on slender piers. Tower arch: two centred arch with moulded soffit and 1625 carved on south impost. South aisle: collared roof with double butt purlins and curved wind braces, three bays with intermediate collars, trefoil piscina in south wall remains of arch to rood stair at junction with nave and chancel. North aisle: four bay king post roof.

Memorials: marble plaque with broken pediment and scutcheon of arms to Joseph Barnes and his wife (died 1753) on south wall of sanctuary.

Fittings: C17 communion rail of alternating twisted and turned balusters with moulded rail; hexagonal C17 pulpit with carved panels; font in north aisle stone-bowl with nine sided top and carved arcade set on C20 stone base.

Listing NGR: SU4932980918

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 39861
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 134
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.