Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1176366
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1176366
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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:
- Llanfair Waterdine
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2402376312
Details
LLANFAIR WATERDINE C.P.
SO 27 NW
8/219
LLANFAIR WATERDINE
Church of St Mary
21.3.68
GV
II
Parish church. 1854 on earlier site, by T. Nicholson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Four bay nave, three bay north aisle, integral north-west tower, south porch, two bay chancel, and north vestry; C14 Gothic style. Plinth; buttresses, diagonal at corners; verge parapets.
Tower: Two stages; string course to battlemented octagonal top stage with ogee-headed bell chamber openings.
Nave: windows with two trefoil-headed lights and returned hoodmoulds; moulded arched doorway in second bay from left with boarded door; gabled porch with chamfered arch, boarded doors, inscribed: "DOMINUS CUSTODET INTROITUM TUUM" above, and side benches within; west window with two trefoil-headed lights and Y-tracery.
North aisle: paired ogee-headed lights.
Chancel: ogee-headed lancets with returned hoodmoulds; east window with three trefoiled ogee-headed lights, trefoiled tracery, and returned hoodmould.
Interior: single framed roofs with braced collars and crested wall plates; four bay north aisle arcade with octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals, and double chamfered arches; double chamfered chancel arch, dying into responds; C19 octagonal stone font with wooden cover; communion rails made up from parts of late mediaeval screen carved with foliage including vines and grapes, figures, lions, dragons, and inscription; pews with the names of farms in the parish painted on; circa 1620 communion table.
The former spire was demolished in 1975.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 November 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257312
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 445-6
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 170
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