Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175111
Date first listed:
21-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175111
Date first listed:
21-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Clun
National Grid Reference:
SO 31596 76349

Details

SO 37 NW CLUN C.P. CHAPEL LAWN

10/64 Church of St. Mary 21.3.68

- II

Church. 1844, by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; rendered East end and shingle-hung West end; slate roof. Lancet style; 3-bay nave, polygonal apse, North-west vestry and South-west porch. Buttresses with single set-offs; diagonal at corners; chamfered cill string; verge parapets; gabled West bellcote with chamfered-arched opening. Lancets with chamfered reveals, 3 in apse; twin West lancets. Chamfered-arched South doorway in first bay from left with late C19 boarded door; gabled porch with chamfered archway and returned hoodmould; North-west vestry with lancet to North and lean-to to West with boarded North door. Interior: roof with 2 pairs of purlins; arch-braced tie-beam and collar trusses consisting of queen struts with flanking curved braces and short king post from collar; chamfered-arched vestry door; octagonal wooden pulpit; octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels; there is reputed to be a C17 chest in the vestry. Cf. Church of St. John the Baptist, Church Road, Newcastle (also included in this list). Cranage; Vol. 5, p.431.

Listing NGR: SO3159676349

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Legacy System number:
257159
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 431

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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.

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