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NOTTINGHAM SK53NW WOLLATON HALL DRIVE
646-1/6/719 (North West side)
Church of St Mary GV II Parish church. 1937-39. By Cecil Howitt of Nottingham. Endowed
by Col. WG Player, and built by Harry Butler. Stained glass
1937, by AJ Dix of London. Buff brick, with moulded brick
dressings and plain tile roof with coped gables and crosses.
Plinth, string course, sill band, corbel table. Symmetrical
single unit, with west porches and eastern vestries to north
and south.
Main body, 7 bays, has heavy, chamfered clasping buttresses.
At each end, a traceried round-arched window, 5 lights. On
each side, 5 tall rebated windows with round heads.
Gabled vestries have canted corners and low parapets.
Mullioned windows, 3-light, in the gables, and doors to east
and west.
Similar west porches have rebated round-arched doorways and
double board doors. Small 2-light window each side. Sundial
over west door.
INTERIOR: brick, with coffered barrel vaulted wooden roof on
corbels, with original wrought-iron pendant lamps. Single
plain brick arch at each end. Ashlar string course and sill
band. Panelled wooden reredos. Organ pipes flanking the west
window. At each end, a doorway to north and south. Stained
glass windows on each side. Original fittings including
cubical ashlar font, panelled pulpit, lectern, desk and
benches. Bronze inscribed tablet in memory of the founder, WG
Player.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 274; Scoffham E: A Vision of the City: the architecture
of TC Howitt: Nottingham: 1992-: 41).
Listing NGR: SK5475039143
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Sources
Books and journals Scoffham, E R, A Vision of the City The Architecture of T C Howitt, (1992), 41 Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 274
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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