Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174954
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174954
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15656 41091
Details
HOLFORD CP
ST14SE
6/96
Church of St. Mary
22.5.69
GV
II
Parish church. Some C12 work said to survive at base of tower, nave refenestrated early C16, chancel and north porch rebuilt 1842-4, nave and chancel restored 1870s, vestry added 1888. Red sandstone random rubble, sandstone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. Two bay nave, west tower, north porch opening into base of tower, one bay chancel and vestry. Two stage tower, saddleback roof, coped verges, moulded plinth, square opening in gable end, three-light window below with hood mould.
Gabled porch, double doors, two three-light cinquefoil headed mullioned window with hoodmould to left, two-light window in chancel, three-light east window, two two-light windows in vestry with door on west wall, three-light cinquefoil headed mullioned window south wall of nave with small two-light hollow chamfered mullioned window in south-west corner.
Interior: plastered. C19 roofs, late C19 fittings including a many coloured marble font.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 November 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265149
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1902)
Other
Photograph in NMR.
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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