Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296537
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296537
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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 MAGDALENE
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stretton Sugwas
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 45964 42026
Details
STRETTON SUGWAS CP - SO 44 SE 5/67 Church of St Mary Magdalene 27.1.67
- II*
Parish church. 1877 - 80 by ? Cheiake on new site incorporating a number of old pieces from the demolished church. Coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. North-west tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, chancel and north vestry. North-west tower: four stages with pyramidal roof, sandstone rubble to lower stage, close-studded timber-framing to upper sections, re-using old timbers. Re-set in stone north wall is a 2-light window in square head with two trefoiled-ogee headed lights; pair of louvred vents to each side of bell stage. Nave: C19 windows to south wall with single-light window with trefoil- headed lights and quatrefoils and trefoils in roundels to right of timber-framed south porch with C19 square-headed doorway. Two re-set windows to north aisle, one late C14 window of two trefoiled-ogee headed lights in square head. Eastern C15 window of two cinquefoiled lights in a square head. Chancel: C19 windows, two 2-light windows to south and 3-light window with flowing tracery to east. The vestry contains a re-set early C14 window in the east wall of two trefoil- headed lights and a square-headed window of two cinquefoil headed lights in the north wall. Interior: re-set in the south wall of the tower is a doorway of c1150 with square jambs and lintel and semi-circular tympanum with a carving of Samson opening the jaws of the lion; on south wall of nave: incised slab to Richard Grevelhay and his wife, 1473, in contemporary civil dress under a canopy. Font: C13, round bowl with round stem and chamfered base. Fragment of C15 screen incorporated into C19 screen in vestry. (RCHM, Vol II, p 176; BoE, p 295).
Listing NGR: SO4596442026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 176
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 295
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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