Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHERRY ORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1166376
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHERRY ORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1166376
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHERRY ORTON 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, CHERRY ORTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orton Waterville
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15632 96076
Details
1. 5141 ORTON WATERVILLE CHERRY ORTON ROAD (east side) Church of St Mary TL 1596 53/473 13.12.57 I GV 2. Built from late C13. Coursed stone rubble church with freestone dressings. Nave has moulded parapet and small C15 two-light square-headed clerestorey windows. North and south aisles remodelled circa 1330-40 with reticulated tracery windows, east windows of 2-lights, double-chamfered north doorway, outer chamfer hollow. Early English south doorway, south porch has double hollow-chamfered arch and foliage capitals. Chancel rebuilt late C16 or early C17 with straight-headed windows, 2-light north and south and 4-light east windows with re-used material. Unbuttressed west tower with C15 top stage, 3 stages, top stage has Perpendicular bell-openings and embattled parapet with quatrefoil panels. Four-bay north and south arcades with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. The north arcade is Perpendicular with reused C12 pier bases, the centre pier of south arcade has stiff-leaf capital. Early English chancel arch. Chamfered 2-centred arch doorway from nave to tower. C16 low-pitched tie-beam chancel roof. Similar nave roof of 1753 incorporating re-used materials. Aisle roofs restored. C14 piscinae in north and south aisles. Very fine late C16 pulpit from Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge, hexagonal blank arches with dog-tooth, and pilasters with arabesque decoration, caryatids supporting cornice, and pulvinated frieze at base. Circa 1300 plain octagonal font, stem has 4 octagonal shafts. Stuart Royal Arms. RCHM (1) page 71.
Listing NGR: TL1563296076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50266
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, , Peterborough New Town: a survey of antiquities..., (1969), 71
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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