Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288258
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288258
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doverdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86013 66029
Details
DOVERDALE CP DOVERDALE SO 86 NE 5/27 Church of St Mary 14.3.69 - II
Parish church. Probably C14, remodelled C17, restored 1860 by F Preedy. Ashlar, tile roof with stone coped verges, leaded spirelet. Nave with bellcote and spirelet to west end, chancel. Nave: stepped buttresses, chamfered plinth; south vestry centrally placed rebuilt 1860 (formerly the porch), to right a square-headed 3-light window with cavetto mullions, to left a single-light window with chamfered surround, both C17; north wall: windows reflect south wall, with a centrally placed, blocked, north door: the semi-circular head is constructed from voussoirs with filleted roll moulding, apparently once forming a 2-centred head. West door of 1860 in slightly projecting surround under triangular head, 2-centred arch to door. Spirelet above built 1860 in place of small bellcote. The 1860 bellcote is timber-framed, two by two square panels with pierced wood infill to the panels; a triangular vent to each side of the spirelet; decorative chevron ribs to leaded spire. Chancel: mostly rebuilt 1860, chamfered plinth with drip moulding, diagonal buttresses; two bays: south wall has two trefoil-headed lancets, east window of three trefoil- headed lights under 2-centred head. Interior: chancel arch of 1860, 2-centred moulded with engaged shafts to responds. Roofs: four-bay arch braced collar roof to nave, with a fifth bay occupied by the four main posts supporting the bellcote and spirelet; chancel: three-bay boarded barrel vault. Fittings: mostly of 1860, wall of nave has C17 panelling to dado height with frieze, part fluted, part intersecting lunettes. Earthworks of a deserted medieval village to west of church. (BoE p 133; VCH 3, p 71).
Listing NGR: SO8601366029
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400153
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 71
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 133
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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