Church of St Mary and St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST LAWRENCE, STRATFORD TONY VILLAGE
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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
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- 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
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.
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 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.
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