Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288706
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288706
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mursley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81711 28554
Details
SP 82 NW MURSLEY MAIN STREET (west side) 4/77 Church of St. Mary
19.8.59
GV II*
Parish church. C14, C15 tower, all very much restored and partly rebuilt 1867. Coursed rubble stone, part roughly dressed. Nave and chancel have tiled roofs, aisles have lead roofs. W. tower of 3 stages has diagonal buttresses, battlemented parapet and 2-light openings to bell-chamber. W.side has 4-light traceried window and single light above. Small blocked lancets to N. and S. Nave has clerestory of 4 quatrefoil windows. Aisles have 3 bays of 2-light C19 Decorated windows with varied tracery, and similar windows to E. N. and S. doors have moulded 2-centred arches, that to S. with C19 hood and carved head stops. C19 S. porch. Chancel has 2 bays of similar windows and 3-light to E., similar doorway to S. Interior: triple hollow-chamfered tower arch. Nave arcade of 4 bays has moulded arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases. Similar chancel arch on semi-octagonal piers, Aisles have cusped ogee piscinae and corbels with ballflower bases flanking E. windows. Chancel has C14 cusped ogee piscina with stop-chamfered sides, and C19 double sedilia with shaped stone armrest. N. wall has blind recess with C19 moulded arch on triple shafts with carved foliage caps. C19 roofs, that to chancel on carved foliage corbels. Fittings : C17 pulpit with carved arcaded panels. Other fittings C19, including elaborately arcaded carved marble reredos. 1862 glass in E. window. Monuments: in chancel: brass to Cecilia Fortescue 1570 on stone altar tomb with blind tracery and blank heraldic panels, monument with painted kneeling figures of Sir John Fortescue and wife, 1607 above; undated stone and marble monument to Sir Francis Fortescue (son of Sir John) and wife with painted kneeling figures in niches and mourning children. RCHM II p 203-4
Listing NGR: SP8171128554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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