Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1295584
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1295584
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Redbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 09994 11570
Details
TL 01 SE REDBOURN CHURCH END TL 11 SW (west side) REDBOURN COMMON
4/153 Parish Church of St Mary 5/153
19.10.53
GV I
Parish Church. Circa 1100 nave and west tower. N aisle c.1140. Circa 1340 chancel. S. aisle, mid C14; S chancel chapel and porch 1444-55. Clerestorey c.1478. N aisle c.1497. Flint rubble with stone and brick dessings. Some reused Roman brick. East chancel wall in chequered stone and knapped flint; plain flint to N wall; brick and stone buttresses. Low pitched lead roofs; chancel with steep plain tile roof. Large 3-stage tower has straight parapet and small spike. C15 W door and belfry lights. Flat buttresses; stepped buttress on SW. Billet courses below belfry. S aisle has very good moulded brick eaves corbel table with trefoiled arcading, an early dated example. Porch with moulded stone door arch. S wall with 2 C15 3-light windows and a 4-centre arched door. Chancel has a 3-light E window with cusped net tracery, restored 1801. N aisle has 2- light windows with hood moulds. Clerestorey windows also 2- light, but with chamfered surrounds.
Interior: N nave arcade is c.1140. 3 drum piers with scalloped capitals. 2-step arches with outer billet label. S arcade has octagonal piers and double-chamfer arches. Similar-style W arch. Chancel arch with moulded and stepped arches, probably before c.1300. Late C15 nave roof with short crown posts. Good C15 N aisle roof with moulded beams; similar roof to NE chapel. N aisle wall has a blocked Norman window. Chancel has, on N wall, a C14 sedilia with ogee arches and C12 capitals; simple Easter sepulchre on S wall. Broad 4-centre arch opening to SE chapel. Very good rood screen of 1478 with pierced and blank traceried panels, 2 either side of central arch, and a cove of open fan tracery. Early C18 stone and marble font in W aisle with baluster-shaped base and shell-like bowl. Brasses: in chancel to Sir Richard Bede, 1560; in S chapel to Richard Peacock, 1512; near S door, C.1470. Monuments: N chancel wall, good marble epitaph to Eignon Bignon and his wife, 1717, by Thomas Bull; a bust under draped baldacchino, flanked by fluted pilasters. 4 other good late C18 and early C19 smaller wall plaques in chancel. (RCHM (1910), Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL0999411570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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