CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, A338

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1184486
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, A338

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1184486
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, A338

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 MARY THE VIRGIN, A338

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winterbourne
National Grid Reference:: SU 18055 35357

Details

WINTERBOURNE A338, Winterbourne Gunner SU 13 NE (east side) 3/171 Church of St Mary the Virgin 18.2.58

Anglican parish church. C12-C13, c1687, 1810 restored 1886 and 1977. Flint with limestone dressings, tower rendered to exposed quoining, and whitewashed. Tiled roofs. Short late C12-early C13 nave, chancel, C12 tower at west end, and south porch erected after removal of south aisle. Entrance through reset chamfered arch to porch with moulded hood and block terminals. Two-light plate tracery windows to nave, C19, ogee headed lancet to south wall of chancel and an early C19 brick arched window. Late C19 east window. Chancel north wall rebuilt with brick banding 1810. Reset datestone in east wall 1687. Window head of Saxo-Norman type in north nave wall. Tower has north door and 3-iight west window. Bell openings ?C12 and early C14. Pyramidal tiled roof. Interior: Nave of 2 bays, late C12-early C13 arcade of chamfered arches on octagonal column and responds, blocked on outside face, apparently a late medieval reduction. C14 roof with arch braced trussed rafters and moulded central tie beam. Old plaster. Blocked north door. Chancel arch also simply chamfered on chamfered responds with bar stops. Chancel plastered -and ceiled, 1810, with simple cornice. Tower arch full width of tower. Fittings: Font, late C12-early C13, tub on turned shaft. Pulpit C19 panelled limestone, octagonal with steps from chancel. Elementary altar rails. C17 panelling to east wall of sanctuary. Paintings: St Christopher on north wall, removed. Black letter inscription from Luke XIII over chancel arch over earlier painting. Small painted area over pulpit. Monuments: In chancel, 7 wall monuments. North side, from east: a) White marble on grey. Framed and pedimented inscription to Jane Tanner, died 1849. b) Similar, on grey marble by Osmund of Sarum. To Frances Tanner, died 1823. c) Limestone monument. Cushioned inscription draped in curtaining, facing putto on apron, and acanthus crest. To Elizabeth Powell, died 1753. d) Plain white slab by Soper, to Edward Griffith and wife, died 1889. e) Alabaster tablet to Ethel Allan, died 1915. South side: f) Chaste white tablet on corniced black slab. To Rev Charles Coleman, died 1815. g) Corniced tablet on gabled grey marble, urn over, by Osmund, to Betty Westcott died 1834. In nave: north side: h) Similar to first but oval tablet, to William Cusse, died 1814. South side: i) Similar but cruder, by Soper, to Herbert Mauger. Two C19 painted commandment boards under tower. Furniture: Small oak chest in sanctuary, C17 with incised arcading. Small C18 oak box with two locks. (Ponting, C.E. in W.A.M. 36 (1909); Pevsner, Building of England, [WILTSHIRE)]

Listing NGR: SU1805635355

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Legacy System number:: 320060
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
'Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine' in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, (1909), 36

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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.