Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1221790
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1221790
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1768326847
Details
SWELL B 4077 (UPPER SWELL)
SP 12 NE
(north side)
3/118 Church of St Mary
25.8.60
GV I
Parish church. C12 origins and fabric. Early C13 chancel; C15 and early C16
remodelling of nave. Chancel rubble built, the rest largely ashlar on a plinth;
Cotswold stone roof, coped gable. Plain rectangular 3-bay nave with 2 bay chancel
and gabled south porch; bellcote (2 bells) to west gable. Round head lancets to
chancel, lowside window to south; 3-light lancet type east window; nave has 3-light
flat head c.1500 window to south with moulded surround and label. Early C15 porch
with diagonal buttresses and original trussed rafter roof shelters Norman doorway
with chevron outer order and flat, keeled roll, tympanum (defaced), volute caps
to nook shafts. Interior: Arch braced collar trusses to nave C15; plastered walls
with wall shafts (?); Norman chancel arch with outer order of hollow chevron and
inner order on scalloped corbel caps. Pillar piscina to chancel linked to sedile,
aumbry in east wall; east window (restored?) with rere-arcade and Purbeck shafts.
Marble wall monument to the Rev Henry Brown, died 1795, by C Peart of London, oval
cartouche with urn and drapes. Font: Octagonal C15 chalice type with tracery
panelling. BOE(Verey) : Gloucestershire, The Cotswold (1970)
Listing NGR: SP1768326847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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