Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUSHBURY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1201786
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUSHBURY LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1201786
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUSHBURY LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUSHBURY LANE

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

District:
City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 92447 02469

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SJ90SW BUSHBURY LANE 895-1/2/44 (East side) 16/07/49 Church of St Mary

GV II*

Church. C14 with C15 tower but much restored in mid C19 by Edward Banks. Ashlar with tile roofs. 3-bay chancel; lower 5-bay nave with lean-to north and gabled south aisles; north vestry; south aisle with south east Hordern chapel; west tower. Coped gables; weathered buttresses. Chancel has C19 three-light east window, and 3-light north and south windows; north ogee-headed entrance. South aisle has C19 three-light windows and 4-light east and west windows with Decorated tracery; gabled porch has pointed entrance and gabled buttresses; south east angle has small gabled projection with ashlar roof, light and gable cross. North aisle has coped parapet, C19 two-light east and west windows and 3-light windows flanking parallel gabled vestry; round-headed entrance with tympanum; C19 two-light vestry windows. Tower has moulded plinth; 4-light window with Perpendicular tracery, clock face above; 2-light louvred bell openings, top cornice and embattled parapet with pinnacles. INTERIOR: C15 hammer-beam chancel roof with double wind braces; ogee-headed sedilia and piscina, north Easter sepulchre; nave arcades on octagonal piers, C19 deep-arch-braced roof; 2 ogee arches to vestry and organ loft; tower arch with imposts; arcading to reredos with flanking Commandment and Creed boards; richly carved ashlar pulpit and lectern; round late Norman font with palmettes and C17 recarving; good late C17 and early C18 wall tablets e.g. to Whitgreaves and Goughs, C17 brass plate to Thomas Leacrofte and Gothic Revival tablet to Corser family, 1820ff, in north aisle; early C19 busts in Hordern chapel; C14 stained glass fragments in chancel, some C19 glass, e.g. east window by C.Winton. (Shell County Guides: Thorold H: Staffordshire: London: 1978-: P.188-9; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.320).

Listing NGR: SJ9244702469

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
378341
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 320
Thorold, H, Shell County Guides in Staffordshire, (1978), 188 9

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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