Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186458
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186458
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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 THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blaisdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 68849 15338
Details
SO 61 NE BLAISDON FLAXLEY
6/16 Church of St. Mary the Virgin
II*
Parish Church, 1856, by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Red Forest ashlar, with grey ashlar dressings, timber porch, tiled roof with crested ridge, shingles to spire. Nave, north aisle, with tower at its west end, chancel, organ chamber and south porch. Nave of 4 bays, plain plinth, moulded string course at window sill level, angled gabled buttress at west end and square-set east. Stone gutter on carved corbels, with larger carved herds above down pipes; gabled copings with apex cross. 3-light windows with traceried heads, carved stops to hood moulds. Timber porch with carved bargeboards, reticulated tracery on columns-in sides. Chancel 2 bay, angled buttress as nave at corner, square set in centre: two 2-light windows, otherwise as nave but corbels to eaves are ball flower. East window 3-light with spherical triangles as tracery to head. Tower square in three stages with projecting stair enclosure, which starts square, changes to demi-octagon and terminates with stone roof and finial against side of tower. 2- light window to ground floor, second stage window trefoil in spherical triangle, above 4 blind lancets with trefoil heads set on attached columns: centre, openings pierced with smaller lancet with timber louvres. Projecting eaves on corbels, broach spire above with gablets for clock on north and south faces. Internally, main arcade has simple arches with hoodmoulds on quatrefoil columns, no clerestory. Carved hoodmould stops and cornice, and corbels for trusses to open roof. Chancel roof boarded, panelled pointed barrel vault. Encaustic tiles to floor. Font elaborate bowl on stem, with 4 marble columns set outside, all on octagonal base. Decorative stone pulpit, with marble colonnettes to corners. Alabaster reredos, carved by J. B. Philip. (Verey, Gloucestershire 2, 1970, p. 185).
Listing NGR: SO6884915338
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 185
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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