Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214446
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214446
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marsh Gibbon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64761 23228
Details
SP 6423 MARSH GIBBON CHURCH STREET (north-west side)
8/38 Cnurch of St. Mary
13.7.66
GV II*
Parish Church. C13 cruciform plan. S. aisle added c1300, S. porch C15. N. aisle and vestry added, W. tower rebuilt and remainder restored 1879-80. Rubble stone. Lead roofs to nave, aisles and transepts; tiled chancel. W. tower of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, pinnacles and Perpendicular openings. Doorway and 3-light window to W. Nave of 2 bays has C16 2-light windows to clerestory, and parapet. S. aisle has 2-light window with ogee tracery and flat hoodmould to left, and C16 3-light window to right. S. porch has moulded 4-centred arch and parapet. C19 N. aisle has 3-light windows similar to clerestory. N. transept has 2 lancets with continuous drip mould to N. and 3-light Perpendicular window with carved head stops to E. S. transept has 5-light Perpendicular window to S. Chancel has C19 lancets with continuous hood and sill moulds, 3 to each wall with taller central light to E. Interior: nave has double chamfered C13 arches to transepts withcarved foliage and heads to caps. Similar arcade with moulded caps to S. aisle imitated C19 to N. aisle. C15-C16 roofs to nave and transepts with moulded beams on restored carved angel corbels. N. transept has 2 piscinae in E. wall, S. transept has piscina with segmental arch and C15-C16 library recess with wooden frame. Chancel has segmental arched tomb recess. Fittings: C17 pews. Other fittings C19 including carved stone rerdos of The Last Supper. Monuments: wall tablets to Abigail and Richard Barker 1712 and John Dodd 1698 in N. transept, and to John Townsend 1714 in S. transept.
RCHM II pp 188-189
Listing NGR: SP6476123228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399253
- 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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