Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1262159
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1262159
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wedmore
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43468 47926
Details
ST44NW
14/151
9.2.61
WEDMORE CP
CHURCH STREET (North side)
Church of St Mary
GV
I
Parish church. Predominantly C15, though C12 and C13 work survive, restored 1880. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed
stone, lead roofs. Nave, North and South aisles, South aisle chapel, South tower porch, crossing tower, chancel,
transcepts, North and South chancel chapels. Tower with set back buttresses, triple 2-light bell chamber windows, those
to centre louvred, those to each side blank, stair turret, arcaded parapet. Similar blank parapet to South side, lesser
parapet to North side. Earliest feature the South porch doorway of c1200 with 2 orders of detached shafts with leaf
capitals; door dated 1677. Chancel and South East chapel of C1300; the latter with a 2-light window with a cusped head.
Remainder Perpendicular; single bay transepts, 2-bay South aisle chapel, 5-bay aisles; 4 and 5-light windows with
renewed tracery. Inside aisles with tall thin piers of 4-hollow section. South aisle chapel latest of all, entered
through a 2 bay arcade formed from 2 earlier windows. Roofs predominantly C19, though on earlier carved corbels, roof
to nave dated 1810; C15 lean-to roofs to South aisle chapel and North chancel chapel, the latter with the remains of
some painted decoration. Piscinae to chancel, North chancel chapel and South aisle chapel. Fan vault under tower.
Staircase in porch to parvise; entrance to rood. C14 octagonal font; medieval slab altar; C17 pulpit with a sounding
board; medieval chest; 2 C17 chests; church wardens strongbox dated 1813; chandelier dated 1779, 2 further chandeliers
of the C19; 2 C17 coffin stools; several large wall monuments, Boulting and family of 1622, Elizabeth Boulting 1751;
C17 wall monument to chancel; 2 C18 wall monuments to porch; 24 C19 monuments by many local firms; C19 stained glass,
particularly to East and West windows. Brasses to George and Thomas Hodges of 1684 and 1583 respectively. C15 wall
painting of St Christopher over the pulpit. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4346847926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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