Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175563
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- 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:
- 1175563
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- 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.
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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leighton and Eaton Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59721 06315
Details
LEIGHTON AND EATON EATON CONSTANTINE SJ 50 NE CONSTANTINE C.P. 1/78 Church of St Mary 13.6.58 II
Parish church. 1847-8 on site of medieval church. Roughly coursed limestone and conglomerate rubble with ashlar dressings, machine tile roofs with fishscale bands, coped verges and moulded eaves cornices. Nave, chancel, west bellcote, south porch and north vestry. Nave: buttressed in 4 bays, broad lancets with hoodmoulds and gabled stone porch in first bay from west on south, 2 lancets to west wall linked by single hoodmould with quatrefoil window above, gabled stone bellcote housing single bell. Chancel: in 2 bays, lancets with hoodmoulds on south and east window of 3 stepped lancets under continuous hoodmould, gabled vestry to north. Interior: arch-braced King-post roof in 4 bays to nave and one of 2 bays to chancel; west gallery supported on 2 cast-iron columns and pointed chancel arch with corbelled responds; good complete set of mid-C19 box pews with small brass name plates of local families engraved in cursive lettering, pulpit, reading desk and chancel fittings (including floor tiles) all con- temporary; mid-C12 font remains from medieval church, circular with moulded pedestal and ornamental band to bottom of basin; stained glass in east window c.1888 and in chancel south windows c.1905; 2 chairs in sanctuary incorporate decorative carved panels of late C15/early C16 date and a board on one of the chancel benches is lettered: "THOMAS BATHOE CHURCHWARDEN 1634". Eaton Constantine was originally a dependent chapelry of Leighton but became a separate parish in the later Middle Ages; the old church was taken down in 1847 and the new one erected at a cost of £775. B.o.E., p.124; D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 7 (1905), p.571; Post Office Directory of Shropshire (1856), p.46.
Listing NGR: SJ5972106315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 124
Post Office Directory in Post Office Directory of Shropshire, (1856), 46
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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