Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, LEEK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138907
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, LEEK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138907
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, LEEK ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, LEEK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bosley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91811 65546
Details
BOSLEY C.P. LEEK ROAD (West Side) SJ 96 NW 1/7 Church of St.Mary the Virgin 14/4/1967
GV II*
Church, tower circa 1500, nave 1777, chancel 1834 by James Green. Tower red sandstone; nave and chancel Flemish bond red brick with roofs of large grey slates. Tower of 3 stages has C19 boarded west door in medieval arch, diagonal buttresses with tooled quoins above, roughly-squared rubble walls, west window of 2 trefoil lights, bell-openings converted to 3 trefoil lights 1878-9, hoodmoulds on grotesque and head corbels. Top 6 feet and battlements are of 1878-9. Four-bay nave has 6 pointed windows with stone pads and keystones and 2 windows (east) altered and with stone cases of 1834. One-bay chancel has 3-lancet stone east window, lancet south window and C20 north window of 2 lancets. Coped east gable to nave with kneelers and crocketed finial; hipped chancel. Interior: Queenpost trusses to nave, partly of oak; plaster walls; round chancel arch; light C20 Geometrical roodscreen of oak; glass of late C19 and late C20. Good mid C17 oak pulpit on pillar has panels and corner colonettes; organ 1879; parish chest probably late C16; C19 stone font; plain oak pews; monument to John William Nowell, railway engineer, 1806-51 by Sanders, Euston Road. 6 bells; 3 are old (1663, 1756 and 1756), with inscriptions.
Listing NGR: SJ9181165546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58118
- 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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