CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181938
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181938
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Beechingstoke
National Grid Reference:: SU 08574 59264

Details

BEECHINGSTOKE - SU 05 NE 3/1 Church of St Stephen 19.3..62 II Anglican parish church, probably late medieval with work of 1693 to nave, 1791 to chancel, heavily restored 1861-9 by S.B. Gabriel of Bristol. Malmstone with limestone ashlar, ashlar quoins, plinth and eaves. Stone slate roof. Short nave, chancel, and south porch. Square headed windows, the tracery replaced in 1861 with pointed lights with quatrefoil heads. Two pointed headed west windows linked by hoodmoulding, and rose window over. Three light east window. South porch has narrow twice chamfered arch and medieval chamfered inner doorway. Corresponding door on north blocked. Gabled bellcote with twin C17 bells, and iron wind vane. South door to chancel has Tudor shaped head and incised date, 1791 CM (Charles Mayo, rector). Various graffiti on quoining dated 1717, 1709, 1727 etc. and 2 mass dials reset on north side. Datestone on east gable of nave reading 1693. Benchmark on north- east angle of chancel. Interior: Nave of 3 bays, open arch braced collar roof on stone corbels. Chancel arch C14 full width of chancel, the latter with scissor framed roof. Credence shelf in niche on north side. Painted inscriptions over chancel arch and under east window. Tiled floors, with 3 steps to altar. Glass by Wailes and Powell, 1848. Fittings: Pulpit, limestone, arcaded, with marble colonettes, 3 steps from chancel. Font, 1861, white limestone, a carved octagonal bowl on purbeck columns around a central stem. Monuments: Chancel, 3 wall tablets. On north, gabled white marble tablet on black, to Rev John Mayo, died 1779. South: White marble tablets with shaped tops, to Ann Sanders, died 1798, with Jane Mayo, died 1802, and Barbara Mayo, died 1796. Furniture: A small early C18 oak chest.

Listing NGR: SU0857459264

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Legacy System number:: 311905
Legacy System:: LBS

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