Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ICKWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221856
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ICKWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1221856
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ICKWELL ROAD
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ICKWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14900 46551
Details
TL 1446 NORTHILL ICKWELL ROAD (West Side)
8/82 Parish Church of St Mary 31,l0.66 the Virgin
GV I
Parish church, serving as a collegiate church 1404-1547. Mainly C14, with some C15 details and some late C19 reworking including most window tracery. Ironstone, dressings mostly in Totternhoe clunch. Slate roofs. Chancel, N vestry and organ chamber, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Chancel: plain parapet. 5-light E window of 1880. 3 3-light S windows, E one retaining some original tracery. Priest's door below central window. NW opening onto organ retains original window jambs. Door to R of this gives onto organ chamber and vestry, added 1862 by H. Woodyer. Fenestration of this addition includes a rose window. Plain parapets. Chancel arch rebuilt 1862. Nave: 4 bay pointed arched arcades to N and S, on 4 shafted piers. All of ironstone except all responds and capitals of western piers of both arcades. N aisle: 4 bays, divided by buttresses. E window, now without tracery, opens onto organ chamber. C15 windows to first and second bays, C14 door to third bay, C14 window to fourth bay. C14 W window. S aisle: similar fenestration to N aisle. Pointed arched S doorway. Embattled parapets to aisles. S porch: much restored C19. 2 storeyed, the vaulting and parvis added C15. Vaulting is in 2 bays, with 3 carved bosses, one showing the arms of Sir John Trailly. Stairs to W. Parvis, originally a chapel to St Anne, has 4-light opening onto S aisle and 2-light S window. Embattled parapet. W tower: 3 stages, top stage C15. 4-stage angle buttresses. Stair turret to NE corner. S elevation has C19 doorway. W elevation has 3-light window, surmounted by narrow single light. Top stage has 2-light pointed arch window to N and S elevations, and paired 2-light windows under square head to W and E elevations. Embattled parapet. Interior: mid-late C19 font. C19 rood screen includes some C15 work, as do the choir stalls, and the parvis stair door. Chancel roof is C19, but nave roof, in 4 bays with strutted crown posts and plain aisle roofs, may date back to C14. N aisle has wall monument to John Harvey, d.1793, by T King of Bath, showing oval with inscription beside draped urn. S aisle has 3 large panels of stained glass of 1664 by John Oliver. Commissioned by the Company of Grocers to commemorate some restoration work and the re-endowment of the living in the will of Lady Margaret Slaney, d.1619. Originally formed E window, depicting Royal arms of Charles II in the central light, flanked by the arms of the Grocers' Company and of Margaret Slaney. Removed to S aisle in 1880. 2 windows by C E Kempe, one to N aisle (1897) one to chancel (1906). W windows of aisles and tower by Clayton and Bell.
Listing NGR: TL1490046551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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