CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CASTLE BANK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1195376
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CASTLE BANK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1195376
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CASTLE BANK

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, CASTLE BANK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90589 22156

Details

STAFFORD

SJ92SW CASTLE BANK, Castle Church 590-1/2/118 (North side) 16/01/51 Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: NEWPORT ROAD (North side) Church of St Mary, Castle Church)

GV II*

Church. C15 tower; nave and chancel 1844-5, by Scott and Moffatt; north aisle 1898 using 1844 windows, by JO Scott. Norman style, with Early English-style chancel and Perpendicular tower. MATERIALS: ashlar with tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel and gabled north vestry, 4-bay nave and north aisle, west tower and gabled south porch. Coped gables with crosses. Chancel has east triplet of lancets with head stops to hood, south single-chamfered lancets flanking pointed entrance with offset buttress to left; vestry has 2-light east window with Decorated tracery and entrance, north side has 2 lights and basement entrance. Nave has shallow buttresses and clasping buttresses, and Lombard frieze to cornice, round-headed windows have nook shafts, zig-zag moulding to arches, and hoods. Porch has clasping buttresses and coped gable with cross, entrance of single order with rich moulding, door with strap hinges; boot scraper; aisle has similar details, pair of lancets to west and C19 rainwater head. Tower has 2 diagonal buttresses, plinth, south 2-light straight-headed window with sundial to right: incised inverted semi-circle with gnomon and inscription: J 1624 L; 2-light west window has hood stops with arms of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham and Ann Neville (married 1423); 2-light triangular-headed bell openings on sill course are louvred, hoods with stops; top cornice with gargoyles and embattled parapet. INTERIOR: chancel has ashlared roof trusses; south sedilia in window recess with cusped splay arches and arm rest; north pointed vestry entrance, encaustic tiles, and wall tiles; chancel arch has foliate capitals and zig-zag; nave has deep-arch-braced roof, 4-bay arcades with moulded arches on round piers with plinths; tall C15 tower arch with brattished capitals; corbelled arch between aisle and vestry. FITTINGS: chancel has plain stalls and arcaded altar rail; ashlar south pulpit has 2 quatrefoils, dog-tooth moulding and angel corbel to book rest, timber lectern with swivel head; square font has pier and 4 small shafts, and early Christian style carving; 1929 timber screen to vestry arch has tracery and brattishing; ?C11 or C12 slab built into aisle west wall has foliate carving in triangular panels, possibly from altar or cross. MEMORIALS: some early C19 wall memorials from previous church, alabaster war memorial tablet in north aisle, 1628 and 1702 poor grant tablets. STAINED GLASS: C19 glass to windows, good east window with groups of figures in vesicas. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 249; Horne JS: The Story of Castle Church, Stafford: Stafford: 1961-).

Listing NGR: SJ9058922156

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 383939
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Horne, JS , The Story of Castle Church Stafford, (1961)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.