Parish Church of Saint Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138101
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16991/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138101
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
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 SAINT MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clophill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08999 38245
Details
TL 0838 CLOPHILL HIGH STREET 9/49 (North Side)
23.1.61 Parish church of Saint Mary
- II
Parish church. 1847-49 by Thomas Smith, County Surveyor of Bedfordshire, 1847-1855 (Beds Record Office : QSM 35 p.524; QSH 38 pp.217-8; P45/8/1; P45/1/28). Paid for by public subscription. Restored 1879. Coursed ironstone blocks with ashlar dressings. C19 roof covering. W tower, nave, S aisle, S porch, chancel. C15 style. W tower: 3 stages, with octagonal stair turret to SE angle. Embattled parapets. Bell-stage windows of 2 cinquefoiled lights under flat heads. 3-light pointed arched window to E elevation. Narrow single lights elsewhere. Nave and S aisle : 4 windows to nave, 3 to S aisle, of 2 and 3 cinquefoiled lights under depressed 2-centred heads. Nave originally had clerestory. Nave and aisle formerly embattled. S porch : gabled, with pointed arched doorway. Chancel : single bay, with pointed arched 4-light E window. Plain parapet removed. Interior : very plain. Chapel in S aisle has re-used C16 screen with carved leaf frieze.
Listing NGR: TL0899938245
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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