CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1214985
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END

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Date:: 2001-08-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1214985
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END

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, CHURCH END

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leckhampstead
National Grid Reference:: SP 72640 37918

Details

SP 73 NW LECKHAMPSTEAD CHURCH END

3/50 Church of St. Mary

13/7/66

GV I

Parish church. Norman nave, Transitional N. aisle, C13 W. tower, Decorated chancel. Restored 1872 by G.E. Street. Rubble stone, tiled roofs to nave, chancel and tower, slate to N. aisle and vestry. W. tower of three stages with angled buttresses to lower stage, double lancets to bell-chamber and battlemented parapet. W. side has Early English doorway of two orders, restored C19, re-set Norman window with scalloped outer moulding and carved caps above, and corner gargoyles. S. wall of nave has two C19 triple lancets, porch dated W.G. 1688 and Norman S. door with round rolled arch on patterned columns with carved winged figures to caps. Lintel has diaper pattern, tympanum has re-used panel of two fighting beasts. N. aisle has C19 grouped lancets and C12 doorway, much restored C19, with roll mouldings, zig-zag ornament and three carved heads to arch, and carved caps. Chancel has 3-light reticulated E. window, 3-light Perpendicular window and 2-light Decorated window with flowing tracery to S., vestry to N. Interior: arch to W. tower pointed and triple chamfered. Nave of four bays. North arcade has Transitional pointed arches with scalloped outer mouldings and carved heads. Square piers with stop chamfered corners, two with original painted frieze decoration and lettering. Chancel has round chamfered arches to piscina and sedilia. Fittings: C12 font re-cut C14 to octagonal shape with carved side panels, some figured, some with foliage; C16 cover. C19 roof, glass and other fittings including carved stone reredos with glazed narrative panels. Monuments: stone tomb chest with recumbent effigy of knight in W. arch of arcade; brass in N. aisle to Reginald Tylney and three daughters 1506, brass of early C16 female figure on S. wall; simple wall tablet to Sir Anthoni Grenowaye 1619 in chancel.

RCHM II pp 165-7

Listing NGR: SP7263837918

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Legacy System number:: 399994
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

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