Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289658
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1289658
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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 THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- English Bicknor
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 58129 15812
Details
SO 51 NE
12.12.53
1/31
ENGLISH BICKNOR
ENGLISH BICKNOR
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
(formerly listed as Church of St Mary)
I
Parish Church. C12 with later medieval alterations and some C19
reconstruction. Sandstone, clay tiles to nave roof, concrete
tiles to rest. Nave and clerestory with single storey aisles,
projecting west tower and chancel. 4 stage tower has C13 base
with blocked lancet openings. Small rectangular openings above
with twin light louvred belfry in Perpendicular style on top stage.
Embattled parapet. 4 window bays to nave and aisles with stepped
coped buttresses between, simple pointed windows with twin lancets
and hexagon above. Clerestory with three, 2-light windows.
Interior: wagon wheel nave roof, aisles have boarded roofs.
Norman arcade with 5 arches on round piers with sculptured
capitals. Elaborate north east arch with chevrons and beakheads
thought to be re-used south doorway. Pointed arch from nave into
crossing, with eastern bays of aisles forming small transepts.
Vestry in north transept behind organ with stone stoup and column
piscina. South transept contains Machen Chapel with many floor
and some wall monuments and has carved wooden screen of c.1500
across 2 sides with altered boarded dado. C19 screen in similar
style divides nave and crossing. Chancel has 3-light decorated
window and Baroque wall tablet 1664. In north aisle at west end,
three C14 effigies not in situ. Plain circular font in south
aisle. (David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire - The
Vale and the Forest of Dean, pp 182-3, 1970)
Listing NGR: SO5812915812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 182-3
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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