Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215187
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215187
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lillingstone Lovell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 71245 40491
Details
SP 74 SW LILLINGSTONE LOVELL MAIN STREET
1/76 Church of St. Mary
13/7/66
GV I
Parish Church. Rebuilt mid C14 retaining some early C13 features. Restored C19. Rubble stone, tiled roofs. W. tower has plain early C13 lower stage with Decorated openings to bell-chamber and saddleback roof above. S. wall of nave has narrow clerestory of C19 2-light windows. S. aisle has parapet, two Decorated windows, 3-light with reticulated tracery to E. end and 2-light to left of porch and one Perpendicular window with three uncusped lights to right. Early C13 S. doorway with moulded arch on double order of shafts with waterleaf caps. Porch 1639. Chancel has Decorated windows, 2-light to S., reticulated 3-light to E. N. aisle widens into chapel with vestry in angle and has 2-light Decorated windows. Interior: steeply pointed arch to tower. Nave arcades of three bays have C14 double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps, ending on carved head corbels to W., S. arcade has clerestory in spandrels, N. arcade has hatchments. S. aisle has chapel with squint to chancel, double traceried piscina and sedile. N. aisle has organ. Double-chamfered arch on corbels to wide chancel. Whole interior stripped of plaster and restored C19. Fittings: chancel has early C18 communion rails with turned balusters, reredos panels of similar date 'with Our Farther and Credo' in surround of Doric pilasters and entablature, and C17 chair. Pulpit has C17 arcaded panels restored on early C19 base. Box pews, modern font. Monuments : brasses to William Risley and wife 1516 in nave, to Thomas Clarell and family 1471 and brass of bleeding heart to John Merstun 1446 in chancel. N. aisle has three fine wall monuments to Cresswell family, two dated 1768 and 1784, with obelisks and urns in coloured marbles. Chancel has late C17-early C18 cartouches, and wall monument to Colonel J.B. Delap 1853 by E. Davis with figured relief in white marble.
RCHM II pp 170-2
Listing NGR: SP7124740490
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400237
- 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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