Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, WOODMANCOTE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220871
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, WOODMANCOTE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220871
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, WOODMANCOTE
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 MARK, WOODMANCOTE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75911 97731
Details
DURSLEY WOODMANCOTE ST 7597 (east side) 7/78 Church of St. Mark 13.2.81 II
Chapel of ease. 1844 by George Alexander; enlarged 1859 by Thigall and Male. Coursed and squared limestone; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Early English style with matching enlargement. Nave with north aisle and porch; north and south transepts (latter an organ chamber); short chancel with vestry to south; spirelet in angle of chancel and north transept. Moulded pointed porch-arch with similar to north aisle doorway; buttressed north aisle wall with single lancet windows and Lombard frieze. Pointed-arched doorway to west end of nave with triplet lancet window over; paired lancets in gabled end of north aisle to left. Similar lancets in south nave wall, also with Lombard frieze. Gable ends of transepts have paired lancets. Triplet east window in angle-buttressed wall. Octagonal broach spirelet over belfry with open trefoil-headed sides on narrow square tower. Interior is limewashed with stone dressings. Three-bay north arcade probably dating from enlargement has pointed arches and circular piers with moulded capitals and bases. Pointed arches to crossing with chamfered archivolt taken off corbels. Trefoil- headed squint to left of nave arch. Bolted round-arched roof trusses. Chancel has 7-bay arcaded reredos removed from Church of St James (q.v.). Carved stone altar. C18 hexagonal panelled oak pulpit on narrowing base; C19 pews taken from Church of St John, Cheltenham, by J.B. Papworth. Octagonal stone font with marble columns to base and stiff-leaf carving. Early C20 stained glass to east window including middle light by Geoffrey Webb. A good and unaltered example of a C19 chapel of ease. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7591197731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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