CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160090
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160090
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH STREET

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 ANDREW, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Great Linford
National Grid Reference:: SP 85072 42323

Details

SP 84 GREAT LINFORD HIGH STREET north end

2/31 Church of St. Andrew

17.11.66

GV II*

Parish Church. C13 and C14, chancel rebuilt early C18. Rubble limestone with some ironstone dressings. Lead roof with parapets to aisles, battlements to nave and tower. Tiled roof to S. porch and chancel. West tower, clerestoried nave, S. aisle and projecting porch, N. chapel and porch, in one plane; chancel. C13 tower with lancet to ground floor, 2 upper stages with simple openings. C14 aisles, windows having plain mullions and transomes inserted C18. N. chapel has 2 windows with fleuron decoration in the surrounds. N. porch is 2-storeyed and has wide ogee arched door, sexpartite vault with carved boss. Small C20 vestry in angle of N. chapel and chancel. Interior: C13 tower opening, C14 nave arcades, fleuron decoration to capital of N. chapel column. C13 chancel arch, widened C18. Plastered ceilings. Fittings. Georgian panelling, pews, some now removed. C18 pulpit and altar rails. Stained glass; S.E. window by Kempe 1904, S. window by Kempe and Tower c1910. Monuments. Brass to Roger Hunt 1473 and wife(nave). Brass to Thomas Malyn 1536 and wife (N.chapel). On W. wall of N. chapel is a tablet to Sir William Pritchard,d.1704, Lord Mayor of London and President of St. Bartholomews Hospital founder of the nearby school and almshouses (q.v.). A draped panel with deathshead holding upper corners of drapery in surround of Doric pilasters, entablature and broken segmental pediment with central cartouche of arms. The base has carved brackets under the pilasters and side scrolls and central inscription to Sir William's only child, William who died in 1685 aged 16, with two cherubs' heads below. On the E. wall is a sarco phagus shaped tablet of white marble surrounded by Sienna to Thomas Uthwatt, d. 1754 and his wife d.1769.This stands in front of a white background curved at the base with crossed torches and with a cornice head forming the base to a black obelisk with urn and coat of arms. There are other Uthwatt monuments in the church, C18, C19 and modern.

Listing NGR: SP8507242323

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Legacy System number:: 45819
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.