Church of St. Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, ALRESFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166960
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, ALRESFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166960
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, ALRESFORD 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, ALRESFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston Candover
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60691 41538
Details
SU 64 SW PRESTON CANDOVER & NUTLEY ALRESFORD ROAD 19/29 Church of St Mary the Virgin
II
1884-5, by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Early English style, with chancel, nave, narthex, north transept (vestry) north aisle and a north-west tower. Steeply-pitched red tile roof. Flint walling with stone dressings and brick banding; buttresses, hood-moulds, flush and projecting bands, plinth. The smallest windows in the northex are 4-cusped lights in square stone frames. Most windows are lancets but there are larger windows (of 2-lights in the transept, 3 to east window and 4 to west window) with traceried lights. The tower, of 3 stages, has a slender broach spire, stone bands corner buttresses with stone set-offs and brick quoins. The interior walling is in red brickwork, with sparse stone dressings, the pointed arcade resting on cylindrical columns, with square moulded caps and bases. The exposed timber roof has arch-braced trusses, resting on stone corbels, the chancel being ceiled with painted panels.
Listing NGR: SU6059741587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138968
- 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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