CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE

CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE, STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1181901
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE, STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE

User submitted image — Uploaded by David Lovell This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2000-06-10
Reference:: IOE01/00252/07
Rights:: © Mr Peter Letcher. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1181901
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE, STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE, STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stratford Toney
National Grid Reference:: SU 09184 26392

Details

SU 02 NE 4/171 23/3/60

STRATFORD TONEY STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE (south side) Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence

GV I

Anglican parish church, now redundant. C13 north door, C14 chancel, C15 tower and C18 nave. Flint chancel, limestone and flint chequers to tower, brick and flint bands to nave, tiled roofs with coped verges. Consists of chancel, nave, west tower and north porch. C13 round-arched chamfered north door in brick gabled porch on north side nave, to left are two blocked segmental-arched windows, with buttress between, dentilled eaves cornice. Chancel has two 2-light square-headed windows with ogee-headed lights of C14. East end has diagonal buttresses and 3-light window with reticulated tracery. South side of chancel has two 2-light C14 windows as on north side, with narrow pointed priest's door to centre. South side nave has three 2-light windows with keystones and pointed heads, set in square cases, dentilled eaves. 3-stage west tower in good quality chequers, has diagonal butresses, string course at bell stage with 2-light louvred windows with transom and cusped heads to south, west and north sides, to west is 3-light C16 square-headed window with hood mould, string course at eaves level with corner gargoyles, plain parapet with saddleback coping, pyramidal tiled roof. Interior: Inner north door is planked with strap hinges in hollow and cyma-moulded Tudor-arched doorway. Plain nave with coved plaster ceiling and tiled floor. Double-chamfered chancel and tower arches. Chancel has C13 cusped piscina in Purbeck marble, on south wall, very fine late Cl7 box choir stalls with balustraded top to panels on walls and stalls. In the nave the late Cl7 box pews have been partially reset as open pews, but retaining all details, C13 cylindrical font at west end of nave. Particularly good stained glass in east window by Kempe, late C19. Wall tablets include classical marble at west end with cherubs' heads to Elizabeth Hill, died 1715, and plain marble in chancel signed by Osmond of Sarum, to George Taunton, died 1832, 1975), (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975).

Listing NGR: SU0918426392

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 319552
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.