Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190967
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190967
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02085 92081
Details
TL09SW
5/126
23/05/67
SOUTHWICK
MAIN STREET
(North side)
Church of St. Mary
GV II*
Church. C14 tower, chancel and nave rebuilt 1760 for George Lynn, and remodelled
c1864. Limestone ashlar with lead and Collyweston slate roofs. Nave, chancel
and west tower. South elevation of chancel of 3 bays, one window range, with
central, C19, three light-window with tracery. Flanking bays are blank. Hipped
roof with Collyweston slates. C19 three-light east window with intersecting
tracery. North elevation of chancel of 3 blank bays with centre projecting bay
corresponding with monument in chancel. Square head priest door to right. South
elevation of nave of 3 bays, 2-window range of 3-light windows with Geometrical
tracery. C19 south doorway to far left has 2-centred arch head and one order of
shafts. Shallow gabled roof with plain parapets. North elevation of nave of
3-window range of C19 three-light windows similar to south elevation. West tower
of 3 stages with 2- and 3-stage angle buttresses to western corners, those to
north west corner have large projections. C19 three-light west window in lower
stage has 2 shields, above, of Knyvet and Basset families. Similar shields to
north and south faces. C14 single light window, with cusping, to each face of
second stage. C14 two-light bell-chamber openings to each face of upper stage,
have transoms and carved label stops. String course above with carved corbels
and plain parapet with central cross slits. Crocketed octagonal spire rises from
behind parapet and has 2 tiers of lucarnes. Shields above first stage of
lucarnes. Interior; C14 triple chamfered and hollowed chancel arch with
octagonal responds. Similar tower arch. Tower walls have vaulting ribs and 4-
carved corbles. C19 nave and chancel roofs. C17 panelling in chancel, probably
reset. C18 communion rail with turned balusters. Late C18 pulpit with fielded
panelling. Small C19 octagonal font. South door in chancel is false. Mid C19
chamber organ from Southwick Hall (q.v.). Stained glass; south windows of nave
have C19 stained glass. Monuments; matrices of brasses in nave floor. George
Lynn died 1621, inscribed floor slabs to Lynn family in chancel. 4 have circular
armorial panels. George Lynn died 1758 attributed to Roubilliac, in recess to
north wall of chancel. Grey and white marble with oval medallion of deceased
suspended from broad flat obelisk; drapery below and seated female figure to
right, leaning against urn. Augusta Lynn died 1827; sarcophagus tablet, by
Whiting, to south wall of chancel. George Lynn died 1827, and family; similar
tablet below. C14 and C15 masonry fragments in church.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p405; RCHM: An Inventory of
Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p138)
Listing NGR: TL0208592081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 405
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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