Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARDMEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289532
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARDMEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289532
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARDMEAD ROAD
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, HARDMEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardmead
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93500 47687
Details
SP 94 NW HARDMEAD HARDMEAD ROAD North side
3/40 Church of St.Mary
17.11.66
I
Parish church, made redundant. C13-C15, restored C19. Stone. W. tower, nave with clerestory and aisles, S. porch and chancel. Flat lead roof to nave and aisles, tiles to chancel with stone coped E. gable. Unbuttressed C13 tower with traceried belfry windows, battlemented parapet. Plain parapets to aisles, battlemented to nave, C14 and C15 traceried windows. C15 S. porch, chancel has E. window and 2 windows each side with C14 Decorated tracery. Interior nave of 2 bays with C14 quatrefoil piers, capitals of S. arcade of earlier date than N. Wide C14 tower arch, old roof. timbers in aisles. Fittings Font C15 carved with tracery. Organ early C19 gothic style. Bench ends C15. Monuments In N. aisle wall monument to Francis Catesby 1636 small reaumbent effigy above an inscription panel and 3 small kneeling figures on the wall behind, framed by Corinthian columns supporting entablatures broken forward over columns and semi-circular broken pediment with coat of arms in tympanum with scroll finial. The monument stands as a deep moulding broken forward under columns and supported on console brackets. Brass to Francis Catesby 1556 and at W. end of N. aisle wall tablet with oval panel nesting on a console bracket with floral swags at top and central cartouche of arms. Chancel: C19 white memorial tablets to members of Shedden family including one with gothic columns and cusped top commemorating Robert Shedden who died 1849 on his yacht Nancy Dawson after his unsuccessful search for Sir John Franklin. Relief carving of the yacht below the tablet.
RCHM II p 139 MON 1
Listing NGR: SP9349947687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396953
- 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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