Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285304
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285304
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82631 56774
Details
ST 85 NW WINGFIELD CHURCH LANE (south side)
6/261 Church of St Mary
13-11-62
GV II*
Anglican parish church. C15, C18, 1861 chancel rebuilding. Dressed limestone, and ashlar, stone slate nave roof, Welsh slate chancel roof, octagonal stone stack. Plan: West tower, nave with south porch, chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. C19 south porch wth segmental-headed double ribbed doors, coped verge with cross finial, 1622 tablet possibly reset. Nave has chamfered pointed C18 window to left, memorial tablet to Tillie family, large segmental-headed C18 window with central mullion to right, large pedimented tablet with illegible inscription to right, buttress with offsets, stone eaves cornice. Lean-to with pointed ribbed door against south side of chancel. Chancel has 3-light Perpendicular east window, no north or south windows. C19 organ chamber to north has 2-light Perpendicular east window, 3-light to north and reset C17 tablet to west side. North side of nave has moulded pointed doorway and C18 deeply chamfered pointed window to right. Three-stage C15 tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses and moulded plinth; moulded Tudor-arched west doorway with 3-light Perpendicular window over, middle stage has single arched light to west and south sides, bellstage with 2-light louvred Perpendicular windows, cornice with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles, pyramidal stone slate roof. Polygonal stair turret on north side has arrowloops. Interior. Porch has C18 inner doorway with segmental head with dropped keystone, ribbed door. Nave has C18 shallow barrel-vaulted ceiling with wooden ribs and dentil cornice. C19 west gallery with cusped panelled front on wooden posts, partly filling moulded pointed tower arch with attached shafts. Pair of Tudor-arched moulded arches lead into organ chamber and vestry; C19 collar truss roof. Chancel has coved plaster ceiling with three rib- panelled bays, C20 panelled dado. Other fittings: pews with poppy heads probably early C20, C19 pulpit with traceried panels, square stone font with unusual fluted bowl, Commandment boards flanking east window of chancel, C17 parish chest fixed to south nave wall. Monuments: 1663 pedimented tablet to Christopher Baylie reset in vestry. Fine monument in nave to John Bayley died 1665 with twisted columns and entablature and broken segmental pediment, draped marble tablet to Edward Wadman died 1742. In the chancel classical black and white marble tablets to Thomas Morris died 1818 by Reeves of Bath, to Reverend Edward Spencer died 1819. Several C19 brass tablets to Copland Griffiths and Caillard families; the latter lived at Wingfield House (q.v.). (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST8263156774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314709
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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