CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CUSOP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1168008
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CUSOP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1168008
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CUSOP

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 MARY, CUSOP

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cusop
National Grid Reference:: SO 24005 41540

Details

SO 24 SW CUSOP CP CUSOP

4/108 Church of St Mary

26/1/67 GV II*

Parish church. Early C12 and C13, restorations of 1857 by J P St Aubyn, and 1961. Rubble, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Chancel and nave C12, south porch and north vestry 1857. Nave: south wall: 2 windows, at east end of two pointed lights, completely restored, to west end small C12 semi- circular headed window with tufa dressings; 1857 south porch east of latter window, enclosing south door which has a flat lintel on shouldered Jambs (all 1857); west wall rebuilt in 1857 with clasping corner buttresses, and 3 lancets surmounted by a sexfoil light; north wall: a window of 2 pointed lights, late C13 in style, restored, to west of blocked C12 north door with massive lintel and shouldered jambs; north vestry of 1857 with Decorated style window of 3 lights. Weatherboarded bellcote at east end of nave roof, 1961, replacing earlier one. Chancel: C12, a single C13 lancet to north and south walls; east window 1857 of three pointed lights with quatrefoils above, under 2-centred head. Interior: early C12 chancel arch of two plain orders with chamfered imposts, one block of impost with decorative carving; blocked opening to north of arch, former rood loft entry. Roofs: nave: 5 bays defined by tie-beam trusses with 2 raking struts rising from feet of principal rafters and halved near apex, restored but possibly C14; chancel: of 3 bays, 3 trusses, low pitch with collars, one truss with tie-beam, perhaps C16. Fittings: font, C13 tapering cylindrical bowl with shallow diapering at rim, rest of surface a trellis pattern. (RCHM, 1, pp 46-7).

Listing NGR: SO2400341538

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Legacy System number:: 153729
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 46-7

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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.