Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177028
- 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:
- 1177028
- 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:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 39874 03576
Details
SJ 30 SE PONTESBURY C.P. HABBERLEY
7/185 Church of St Mary - 13.6.58 GV II
Parochial chapel, now parish church. C12 fabric, restored and partly re- built c.1864. Uncoursed limestone and quartzite rubble with limestone and sandstone ashlar dressings, machine tile roof. Nave and chancel in one with bellcote at west end and lean-to vestry (former north chancel chapel) at north-east corner. One 3-light late C16 mullion window to south wall of chancel; remainder alI c.1864, paired cusped lancets with quatrefoils above to east of north and south doorways and one single light to west on north, east and west windows of 3 stepped lights also with cusped heads; C12 south doorway with plain recessed arch and tympanum, north doorway similar but narrower, both restored; Gothic-style bellcote at west end has 2 cusped lancet openings; prominent stepped buttresses at south-east and south-west corners probably C17 (date 1648 on latter). Interior: late C19 arch-braced roof in 5 bays; most of other fittings and furnishings also date to 1864 restoration, although some late C17 panelling was re-used in nave at this time, stained glass in east and west windows of 1868 and 1883 respectively; C12 font with incised rim moulding is said to have been re-cut in 1766 and placed on its present pedestal in 1864; a board commemorating benefactions to the poor of the parish hangs in the vestry, no monuments of note. Formerly a chapelry of Worthen, Habberley probably became an independent parish during C12. V.C.H. VIII (1968), Pp.243-44; Cranage, Churches of Shropshire, Part 6 (1903), Pp.528-9.
Listing NGR: SJ3987403576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 528-9
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 243-44
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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