Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200024
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200024
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seagry
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95823 80820
Details
SEAGRY LOWER SEAGRY
ST 98 SE 5/288 Church of St Mary
GV II
Anglican parish church, 1849 by J.H.Hakewill, squared rubble stone with stone slate roof, coped gables, finials and ashlar gabled west bellcote. Nave, south porch, transepts and chancel, plain Early English style with lancet windows, angle buttresses to nave and chancel, side buttresses to transepts and porch. Nave has two west lancets with linked hoodmoulds, paired lancets each side, two to north, one and gabled projecting porch to south. Transepts have two end-wall lancets with linked hoodmoulds and one each side. Chancel has sill-course and two lancets with hoodmoulds each side, south side centre door and east end 3-light window with hoodmould. Interior: complete encaustic tile flooring, apparently C19 but said to include some medieval tiles. Nave has arch-braced-collar rafter roof, chancel has boarded 5-sided roof. Fittings: fine c1200 stone font with raised triangle-headed arcading. C15 timber screen of 4-lights each side of Tudor-arched centre. Traceried heads to lights, carved spandrels to centre and brattished cornice. C19 pulpit. In chancel north wall C14 female effigy said to be of Isabella Mompesson. In south transept C13 effigy of a knight, said to be W. de Clifford, who founded the church 1172, and 1678 and 1700 carved plaques to Robert and Rebekah Stratton. In nave, north wall pedimented plaque to J. Jenkins died 1764 and fine open pedimented plaque to C. Bayliffe died 1735. Stained glass: unusual east window of 1849 combining painted and stained glass, chancel lancets each side of c1878 and 1890. One nave north window of c1875. West end organ by W. Sweetland of Bath 1888. Church cost £860. (K.R. Clew Church guide 1983; N. Pevsner Wiltshire 1975 463-4)
Listing NGR: ST9582380820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316060
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clew, KR, Church of St Mary Church Guide, (1983)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 463-4
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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