CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304684
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304684
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Rudford and Highleadon
National Grid Reference:: SO 77975 21712

Details

SO 72 SE RUDFORD RUDFORD VILLAGE

8/220 Church of St. Mary

2.10.54

GV I

Parish church; C12, C14, C15, restored 1869-70. Random rubble walls, larger quoins, ashlar dressings: ashlar bellcote: upper part south chancel wall rebuilt in ashlar. Small slates to nave, larger, thin slates to chancel. Nave, chancel, north garden store. West facade: plain plinth, central, boarded door, steep segmental head, plain reveals, nook shafts, scalloped capitals, chevron outer arch, hoodmould. Above 2-light reticulated tracery window. Two round-headed lancets over, with ashlar band across gable above. Gable quoins change colour 3 stones below eaves: eaves appear to have been raised and roof pitch reduced. Parapet gable: Norman-revival bellcote on apex. South facade: boarded door left of centre, moulded cover strips over joints in boarding, strap hinges; flat head, plain semi-circular tympanum. Plain reveals, nook shafts, scalloped capitals, chevron moulding to arch, plain hoodmould off abacus. Round-headed lancet above left. To right 3-light Perpendicular-tracery window, external casement moulding, no hoodmould. Parapet gable on right, cross-gablet apex with stone cross. Chancel lower, set back slightly: trefoil- headed lancet on left, large buttress to right, 2-light window ogee hoodmould with floriate finial. Gable as nave: stone ridge to roof. Interior: walls plastered, plain string course. Chancel arch scalloped capitals to double responds each side and nook shafts, double roll moulding to soffit of arch, chevron moulding outside. Roof C19 exposed arch-braced collar rafters. Chancel 2-bay ribbed quadripartite vault off scalloped capitals to responds. Semi- circular headed recess each side in second bay; double piscina in sill of main south window. Plain octagonal stone font, probably medieval floor tiles around base. Small, semi-octagonal pine pulpit: iron candle holder on spike. Pendant brass light fitting in 3 layers on chains in nave, 8 candles: similar, with 6 in chancel. Before restoration had a tower and western gallery. (Bigland: Collections for the count of Gloucester, Vol III, 1889; Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1879; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7797621716

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Legacy System number:: 125756
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bigland, R, Historical Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucestershire, (1889)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
'Kellys Directory' in Gloucestershire, (1879)

Legal

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