Church of St Mary Le More
CHURCH OF ST MARY LE MORE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182404
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Le More
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY LE MORE, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182404
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Le More
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY LE MORE, MARKET PLACE
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 LE MORE, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60712 89327
Details
WALLINGFORD MARKET PLACE SU6089SE (South side) Wallingford 11/115 Church of St. Mary-le-More 09/12/49 (Formerly listed as Parish Church of St. Mary)
GU II*
Church. Tower of c.1653, church of 1854 by David Brandon, with C20 restoration. napped flint with stone dressings; flint and stone mixture with stone dressing to tower; C20 plain-tile roof. 3-bay nave, 4-bay aisles, 3-bay chancel and west tower. Early English-style. Plank door to 2-centred arched doorway with gabled porch to left of centre of north aisle. 2-centre arched doorway to right of chancel with plank door. Geometrical tracery windows to all openings except 3-light intersecting tracery window to left and end of north aisle. Tower has octagonal corner turrets with C20 fibreglass replacement pinnacles. Perpendicular 2-light stone mullioned louvred opening to each side of top of tower, that to north obscured by clock face. Battlemented parapet. C20 refaced stone stair turret to rear. Interior: C19 marble reredos and sanctuary area with Salviati mosaic bands. Piscina and sedilia to right of chancel. Arch-braced roof to chancel. Early C20 Perpendicular-style wood rood screen with painted carved figures. Arch-braced roof to nave with 4-light dormers forming clerestory. Arch braced roofs to aisles. Pulpit c.1888 of grey-veined white marble with bronze panels of saints by Onslow Ford. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923, p.539; Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1966, p.247-B).
Listing NGR: SU6071289327
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249278
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 247-8
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 539
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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