CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213283
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213283
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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, HIGH STREET

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Streatley
National Grid Reference:: SU 59444 80875

Details

STREATLEY HIGH STREET (north side) SU 5980 10/9 Church of St. Mary 14.4.67 GV II Church. C15 tower, rest rebuilt in 1865 by Charles Buckeridge in a neo Gothic style. Flint, rubble and tile with stone dressings, parapeted gable ends and tiled roofs. West tower, nave, aisles, south porch, chancel and north and south vestries. Tower: 3 stages with diagonal and angle buttresses, plinth, string courses, parapet string, and coped battlemented parapet. South-eastern 3-stage half octagonal newel turret with square first stage and pyramidal stone cap. Caernarvon arched doorway to south with boarded door, and narrow rectangular windows in top stage. Square headed 2-cusped light louvred bellchamber openings with hoodmoulds to north,south,and west, that to south with clock above; second stage narrow rectangular windows to north, south, and west,and first stage 2-light west window with quatrefoil above. Nave and aisles: 4 circular quatrefoiled clerestory windows to north and south. 5 north aisle lancets with lancet at west end, and 4 south aisle lancets with lancet at west end. South-west doorway of 2 orders with moulded capitals and bases, moulded arch, and boarded door. Gabled south porch of timber on flint base with tiled roof and decorated barge- boards; archway flanked by quatrefoil openings, and 3 quatrefoil openings on east and west faces. Chancel: shafted lancet to south with moulded capitals and bases, and returned hoodmould; stepped triple shafted lancets at east end with hoodmould and carved stops. C20 vestry to south with 3-light window to left and glazed door in recessed porch to right. C19 vestry to north with moulded end stack to west, 2 lancets flanking central arched boarded door to north, and square headed window to east of 2-lights with cusped ogee heads. Interior. Nave: aisle arcades with circular piers and moulded bases and capitals. 6 bay roof with tie beams, arch braced collars and double purlins with 2 tiers of windbraces. Arched and shafted memorial tablets between south aisle windows. Moulded tower arch and shafted west window with central shaft and plate tracery, moulded chancel arch. Chancel: low pierced walls at entrance, shafted eastern lancets, arched sedilia piscina and aumbry C19 fittings include octagonal wooden pulpit on stone base, eagle lectern, octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels, and rich reredos by Pearson. Brasses to Elizabeth Proutt of 1440, Margaret Buryngton of 1570, Griffin Clarke of 1583, and Thomas Buriton of 1603. V.C.H. (Berkshire), pp.514-515; B.0.E, Berkshire, p.230; Streatley, Ed. Revd. T. Strong, 1979.

Listing NGR: SU5944480875

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Legacy System number:: 397853
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 514-515
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 230
Strong, Reverend T , Streatley, (1979)

Legal

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