Church of St Mary and St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211496
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211496
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST NICHOLAS
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 AND ST NICHOLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chetwode
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64043 29800
Details
SP 62 NW CHETWODE
6/19 Church of St Mary and St Nicholas
13.7.66 GV I
Parish church, formerly chancel of Augustinian Priory church founded 1244. W. section serves as nave, E. end is Early English and serves as chancel. N. transeptual chapel rebuilt C17 as Chetwode Chapel incorporating Decorated window. W. tower C15-C16. Partly rebuilt and re-roofed c1820. Rubble stone, slate roof. W. tower has pebble-dashed upper section, hipped tiled roof, perpendicular doorway and windows. Nave has small perpendicular 2-light window and window with Y tracery in W. wall, 2 Decorated windows in S. wall, altered window in N. wall. E. end has lancets, a series of 3 to N. and S. and 5 to E. wall. Internally these have moulded arches on shafts with moulded caps to E. window and caps carved with foliage and beasts to N. and S. windows. S. window has C13 glass in central light, C14 glass in flanking lights. E. window has glass signed by William Holland 1842. S. wall has Early English arcade over piscina, sedilia and priest's door with moulded caps and dogtooth ornament between shafts and arch mouldings. N. transept has Decorated arch to nave, plaster ceiling with wooden ribs marking groin and resting on wooden corner shafts with carved heads to cap and base, family pew with C17 panelling and cast iron fire-grate. Other fittings: wall monument to Mary Risley 1668 with tablet flanked by mourning women, C18 floor slabs, hatchments, C17 door, painted wooden panels dated 1696 in nave with pediments, side scrolls and inscriptions commemorating church repairs by W Lawley. RCHM II pp.85-6
Listing NGR: SP6404529798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396032
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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