Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318459
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/00164/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318459
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilmington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77197 36593
Details
KILMINGTON CHURCH ROAD ST 73 NE (east side) 3/73 Church of St Mary 6.1.66 GV II* Anglican parish church. C15 tower, chancel rebuilt 1864, complete rebuilding 1869, tower restored 1903 by C.E. Ponting. Dressed limestone, rubblestone, tiled roof with ceramic ridge cresting and coped verges. West tower and entrance, nave and north aisle, south transept, north vestry and chancel. Narrow 3-stage tower of Somerset type with diagonal buttresses and string courses, moulded Tudor-arched west doorway with hoodmould, 4-light Perpendicular window over, bellstage has 2-light pointed Perpendicular windows with pierced decorative louvres, 2-light north window to middle stage and south side has two crocketed image niches with statues of the Virgin and Gabriel, buttresses are carried up to crocketed corner pinnacles of battlemented parapet. Nave has 3-light C19 window to south side. C19 gabled south transept has 3-light Perpendicular-style window to south, reset stone sundial. Chancel in geometric Decorated style has two 2-light windows to south and 3-light east window, pedimented tablet to Edward Wagstaff died 1795 attached to north wall, north vestry with planked pointed door and 2-light window. Large north aisle with 3-light Perpendicular west and east windows, four 2-light north windows. North side of tower has polygonal stair turret with chamfered arrowloops. Interior: porch below tower has chamfered Tudor-arched doorway to stairs, continuously double chamfered tower arch with 1903 glazed screen, plaque on wall records restoration, four achievements of arms. Nave has C19 roof of eight unequal bays, arch-braced collar trusses with curved wind-bracing to exposed rafters and purlins, polychrome tiled floor. Four-bay north aisle arcade in C14 style with octagonal piers and moulded arches. Organ chamber in south transept; double chamfered continuous arch, possibly C15. C19 chancel arch in C13 style, 3-bay arch-braced collar truss roof, partly blocked pointed archway to north vestry, small piscina in south west window sill. Fittings: C17 polygonal pulpit with richly carved panels, reset on C19 limestone plinth, C19 octagonal stone font at west end of nave, Cl9 pews. Stained glass in east window to Anne Warburton c.1878, north aisle east window glass to Hartgill family c.1869. Monuments include slate tablet in transept to Rebecca Combe died 1644 with good lettering, Edwardian baroque cartouche with heraldic arms to Georgii Gulielmi Camborne (sic) died 1906, classical marbles to Joseph Lush died 1827, oval tablet to Joseph Lush died 1797, classical marble recording charity to Wesleyan Chapel; John Hooper died 1894. (Kelly's Directory, Wiltshire, 1903).
Listing NGR: ST7719736593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Wiltshire, (1903)
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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