CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1138390
Date first listed: 02-Nov-1983
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WREXHAM ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WREXHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Pulford
National Grid Reference: SJ 37536 58763
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SJ 35 NE PULFORD C.P. WREXHAM ROAD
(East side)
5/158 Church of St Mary
II*
Church rebuilt 1881-4 by John Douglas partly at the expense of the 1st
Duke of Westminster. Banded red and buff coursed rubble sandstone
with steep red tile roofs and shingle spire. Cruciform, with
transepts off chancel; aisleless nave; large buttressed tower (in
silhouette typical of Douglas's work) with spire and octagonal corner
spirelets; arched north porch with shaped oak doors on ornate wrought
iron hinges. Plate tracery (north transept), bar tracery in east and
west windows and cusped tracery in rectangular windows to nave.
Interior ashlar with arched oak trusses to roof. Corbelled arches to
transepts. Pictorial stained glass: Crucifixion in east window.
Song of Simeon in west, Magdalen anointing Christ's feet (chancel,
south), and engraved stained glass (after manner of Rosetti) of
Christ's childhood in east window of north transept. Organ chamber in
south transept. Oak pews with carved ends.
An unaltered church in Decorated style, freely interpreted, on the
site of a medieval church adjoining a motte and bailey castle.
Listing NGR: SJ3753658763
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 55355
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.
End of official listing