CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

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

User submitted image — Uploaded by Amanda Hooper This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2003-09-01
Reference:: IOE01/10731/24
Rights:: © Michael Bass. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.