Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHENLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160730
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHENLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160730
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHENLEY 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, SHENLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenley Church End
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 83183 36700
Details
SP 83 NW SHENLEY CHURCH END SHENLEY ROAD west side
3/112 Church of St. Mary
17.11.66
I
Parish Church. W. wall and outer walls of transept C12, chancel and S. arcade late C12, N. arcade, S. side of clerestory and aisles C14; tower C15, S. porch Cl7. Restored 1888-90. Coursed rubble limestone, cruciform plan with battlemented parapets to lead roofs of nave, tower and chancel, plain parapets to aisles and porch, tiles to transepts. The chancel has side lancets deeply recessed with roll mould on inner arch, slender shafts with plain caps supporting toothed chevroned outer arch. On the exterior these windows have shafts supporting moulded arches with strings at cap and cill level. The altar rails are C17-18. The crossing under the central tower is probably C14. The N. transept has a Perpendicular window and a C17 altar table. The nave arcades have 3 principal and one smaller bay, the S. arcade with round piers and plain caps and hoods with toothed moulding. The clerestory has three windows on each side. The timber roof is C15 restored. The large W. window of the nave is Perpendicular. The font is octangular and there is a panel with the Royal Arms of Geo. III. The church was restored in 1888-90. A monument to Edmund Ashfyld, 1577, has a sarcophagus in a recess, three Corinthian columns on plinths with shafts, one of jasper, two of porphyry, supporting entablature and broken pediment with central coat of arms. In the N. aisle is the monument of Thomas Stafford, 1607, of Tattenhoe, the founder of the Almshouses, a recumbent effigy on a base with central figure of his wife flanked by children, all carved in relief. Behind is an inscription panel flanked by side panels supporting cornise with side scrolls and coat of arms over. There are C18 monuments to members of the Stafford family and to former rectors. RCHM II p.255 MON.1.
Listing NGR: SP8318136702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45898
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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