CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1216538
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1216538
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL

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 HILL

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District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whaddon
National Grid Reference:: SP 80532 34074

Details

SP 83 SW WHADDON CHURCH HILL

2/128 Church of St. Mary

19.8.59

GV I

Parish church, C12, altered C14 and C16. Restored 1889, 1891, 1902 and 1906. Coursed rubble stone, lead roofs to nave and aisles, tiled roofs to chancel and N. chapel. W. tower, nave aisles, N. and S. porches, chancel and N, chapel. C14 W. tower of 2 stages has off-set buttresses, battlemented parapet with gargoyles, stair turret at S.E. corner, and 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber. W. side has moulded arched door with 3-light Decorated window above, both with hoodmoulds and worn carved head stops, and cusped niche over. Nave, aisles and porches have plain parapets. C16 clerestory with 2-light window to N. 2 3-light windows to S. and 2 single lights to E, N. aisle has 2 2-light traceried windows, partly restored, and door in moulded arch with hood and carved head stops. S. aisle has similar door and 3-light window to E, and 2 3-light traceried windows,mostly C19, to S. C16 porches have 2-centred chamfered arches. Chancel has low-side window with cusped ogee head and transom, similarly arched small doorway, and C19 3-light window. E. windows of chancel and N. chapel are 3-light windows with ogee tracery, hood moulds and carved head stops, partly restored, N. wall of chapel has similar 2-light window. Interior : Triple chamfered tower arch on semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps, similar double chamfered chancel arch. Nave arcade of 3 bays has slightly chamfered Transitional arches on round piers with variously carved and moulded caps, partly restored. N. wall of nave has arch to chapel at E. end, S. wall has chamfered arch to chapel with one carved head corbel. Cusped ogee stoups to N. and S. doors. Chancel has double chamfered arch to chapel with caps on small carved heads. C19 aumbry in N. wall. Moulded trefoil-headed piscina, plain double sedilia with shaped armrest. N. Chapel has segmental arched recess, cusped piscina and C14 roof with arched braced collars and wind-braces. Fittings: C13 font, on 4 columns with strips of dogtooth ornament between. Painted wooden winch bracket with carved face above. Early C17 altar rails and communion table. Other fittings and glass C19-C20. Monuments: Purbeck marble tomb of Thomas Pigott, 2 wives and children 1519, with ornamental blind tracery to tomb chest, canopy on slender decorated shafts, and small brasses. Monument to Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton 1593 with plain tomb chest and inscription above in surround of short fluted Ionic columns and cornice hood. Stone tablet of 1610 with brasses of Margaret Myssenden and skeleton. RCHM II p 318-321

Listing NGR: SP8053434074

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Legacy System number:: 401716
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.