Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221790
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221790
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, B 4077
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, 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)
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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