CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296584
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1974
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHAPEL LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wythall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07283 74885
Details
SP 07 SE WYTHALL CP CHAPEL LANE (west side)
7/196 Church of St Mary
24.4.74
GV II
Parish church. 1862 by F Preedy, tower added 1903 by W H Bidlake. Nave,
south aisle, chancel, central tower. Polychromatic brickwork with stone
dressings and slate roof. South aisle: three bays divided by stepped
buttresses, entrance to left slightly advanced with gable over has a 2-
centred arch with engaged respond shafts; one window to each bay of two
trefoiled lights under 2-centred heads; chancel: two bays with lancets;
east window: three trefoiled lights under 2-centred head. Tower of 1903
rises two stages above aisle. First stage has a 2-light window under 2-
centred head; the belfy stage has on each side a pair of large open 2-light
windows with 2-centred heads and multiple engaged shafts to responds, octagonal
stair turret on north-east corner has a conical stone roof; roof gabled north/
south, surmounted by a fleche. Interior: polychromatic brickwork, three-bay
arcade to south aisle of brick on stone columns; at crossing 2-centred arches
in all directions with respond shafts. The massive tower is a prominent land-
mark in the predominantly flat terrain around Wythall. (BoE, pp 337 - 338).
Listing NGR: SP0728374885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 337-338
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
