Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187042
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187042
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Spelthorne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 05711 74136
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 5390 Stanwell Church of St Mary TQ 5074 8/77 11.8.52 I
2. C15 west tower. Three bay nave and south aisle. Later north aisle and porch and rendered early C14 chancel. Restored by Teulon 1862 and 1903. The tower is squared with roughly chequerwork stone and flint, corner buttresses, crenellated parapet and stair-turret to south-west. Spire with renewed shingle covering. Red tile roofs. Nave has C19 windows in circa 1500 style (flat headed with pairs of cusp headed lights). Original north doorway with damaged mouldings. C19 gabled chapels to north and south of tower. The north and west doors have good ironwork. Interior: 3 bay arcade, alternating piers, with chalk arches. Braced tie-beam roof (moulded and supported on posts resting on carved corbels). The chancel has early C14 dado arcading, pillar piscina and an Easter sepulchre. The most noteworthy feature of the interior is the monument by Nicholas Stone to Lord and Lady Knyvett (he arrested Guy Fawkes), died 1622, marble with Lord and Lady Knyvett kneeling below a columned and pedimented canopy. Good brass in chancel to Richard of Thorp (died 1408). Chancel also has memorial to Jane Hartley (d. 1795).
Listing NGR: TQ0571174136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363261
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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