Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Station Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155023
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Station Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155023
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Station 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, Station Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 78276 78469
Details
SU 7877
16/5
WARGRAVE
STATION ROAD (north side)
Church of St. Mary
26.1.67
GV
II*
Parish Church. Originally C13 but was burnt down in 1914 reputedly by suffragettes with the exception of the west tower of 1635, the walls and north doorway. Rebuilt 1916 by W. Fellowes Prynne. Flint walls with Bath stone dressings part rendered on north, brick tower, gabled tiled roof.
Five bay nave, chancel, north transept and organ chamber, south arcade and and aisle with chapel. Tower is three stages, brick plinth with stone capping, moulded stone strings, parapet, octagonal corner buttresses of chequer flint and brick with strings carried round and stone ball finials. A west doorway in a brick arched opening, at the south east corner a staircase to the ringing chamber. Windows with intersecting tracery, altered. The north door in the nave is Norman of two orders with chevroned shafts, caps, large roll inner moulding and scalloped outer moulding. On the north wall are remains of Norman arcading. The font is C15 made from chalk and restored early C20. Some floor slabs remain.
Listing NGR: SU7827678469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 257
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 195
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 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.
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