CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304581
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Paul Adams This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2003-04-08
Reference:: IOE01/06467/25
Rights:: © Mr Peter Yardley. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304581
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkeley
National Grid Reference:: ST 68470 99031

Details

ST 69 NE BERKELEY CHURCH LANE (south side)

10/60 Church of St. Mary the Virgin

30.3.60

I

Anglican parish church. C12 foundation, altered in C13 and C15, and in C19. Random coursed rubblestone, lead roofs with coped verges and cross finials. Nave and aisles of 7 bays with clerestory windows to south only, north porch, lower chancel with flanking chapels. Aisle windows of 3 stepped lancets with cinquefoil heads with buttresses between, stepped on north side. Chancel has triple and single plain lancet on north side of C12, 9- light east window atered from 7 lights in 1843. North porch of 2 storeys built at 2 stages: lower stage C14 with rib vault with carved central boss and corner corbels and stepped diagonal buttresses and large ogee doorway, upper stage c1450 with twin ogee lights for priest's room to north and west and trefoil-head panelled parapet with pinnacles on north. West end has 5 stepped round-headed lancets of mid C13 with 3 pointed moulded arches below under steep gables, and central cusped cinquefoil doorway. South door (opposite north porch) has triple round-headed moulding and colonettes in jambs with square roll-moulded doorway and plank door with elaborate applied ironwork. Berkeley Chapel in south east corner is Perpendicular of mid C15 with 3-light ogee windows and elaborate carved parapet with crocketed pinnacles over each bay buttress, and small priest's door with ogee moulding and Berkeley arms on tablet above. Interior: pointed arcade with piers of clustered shafts and stiff- leaf capitals c1225-50, walls decorated with medieval patterns in red and black including fragment of Doom scene on chancel arch. C15 timber roofs with chamfered and moulded beams carried on corbels. Tall flattened pointed chancel arch with rood stair in pier to left and C12 piscina to right and C15 stone screen with large 2-centred arch containing 3 smaller cusped pointed arches with quatrefoil and mouchette over; chancel roof has openwork quatrefoils etc., over main beams. C19 Reredos with 5 aedicules and statues, large inset ogee arch to left, and to right tomb of James, 11th Lord of Berkeley, died 1463, with Perpendicular canopy in archway through to Berkeley Chapel. Memorial stone to Edward Jenner on south wall. Generally C19 stained glass, fine tomb slabs of C17 and C18 throughout, and wall memorials. In south arcade, large chest tomb of Thomas, 8th Lord of Berkeley, died 1361, and wife Katharine, died 1385. Square Norman font by south door on 4 columns with central round pier and scalloped lower edge. (David Verey, Buildings of England - Gloucestershire: The Vale and Forest of Dean, 1980; local guide by J.Gethyn-Jones, 1971).

Listing NGR: ST6847099031

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 132204
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.