Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318792
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318792
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH HILL
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 HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Donhead St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90672 24437
Details
DONHEAD ST. MARY CHURCH HILL ST 92 SW (east side)
7/41 Church of St. Mary 6.1.66 GV I
Anglican parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration. Dressed limestone, tiled roof. Plan: nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, west tower and south porch. C14 gabled porch with diagonal buttresses and raked sides, Tudor-arched ovolo- moulded doorway, coped verge with cross finial to stone roof. South aisle has blocking course and 2-light C15 window with cusped lights and hoodmould either side of porch. Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets with hoodmoulds, coped verge with sanctus cross. South chapel has chamfered pointed priest's door and two 3-light C15 windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, blocking course with saddleback coping. Chancel has one 2-light C14 window to south and three C19 stepped lancets to east, diagonal buttresses and coped verge, large stone tablet to Jeremiah Bower died 1759 set against north wall. North chapel has 3-light Perpendicular window and tablet to Elizabeth Bower died 1791 on east wall, north side has two 2-light Perpendicular windows and blocking course. North aisle has central blocked hollow-chamfered doorway with hoodmould, 2- light C15 cusped window either side, blocking course. Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets. All chapel and aisle windows are square-headed. Three-stage west tower mostly C15 with angle buttresses and string courses, double chamfered pointed west doorway with 3-light Perpendicular windows with pierced wooden louvres and hoodmoulds, moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. Interior: porch has stone benches to sides, pointed barrel vaulted roof with ovolo-moulded stone ribs, cyma-moulded inner doorway with hoodmould and C19 double doors. Nave has 5-bay C19 wagon roof with moulded tie beams, polychrome tiled floor. Tall chamfered tower arch with hollow-moulded upper arch on C19 corbels, blocked lancet over, wooden newel stairs to belfry, late C19 Perpendicular-style screen filling arch. Clerestory windows have hollow-chamfered rere-arches. Fine late C12 three-bay south arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal abaci and cylindrical piers with multi-scalloped or stylised leaf capitals, blocked Tudor-arched west doorway in south aisle. North arcade of three double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers with plain chamfered capitals and roll-moulded bases, aisles have restored late Medieval lean-to roofs with carved bosses and chamfered ribs. Wide double hollow- chamfered pointed chancel arch on octagonal responds with wind- blown leaf capitals, chancel has C13-style east windows with rer- arches on marble shafts and C19 wooden pointed barrel-vaulted roof, 2-bay chapel arcades with hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded piers and moulded arches, roll-moulded pointed transitional archways between chapels and aisles, C19 pitched roofs. Good 1880s glass in east windows, rest of glass probably by Kempe, 1860s. Restored Jacobean pulpit with carved panels, C12 black marble and stone drum font with arcading and carved 'woven' frieze, C19 pews. Pedestal piscina in south chapel with Dunston memorial glass of 1984. Good collection of C18 and C19 wall tablets including stone and slate tablet in south aisle to John Jeffries died 1711 with Composite pilasters to segmental pediment, several classical tablets by Osmond of Sarum such as to William Grove of Ferne died 1855 and to Charles Wyndham of Donhead Hall died 1846, large marble to Col. William Burlton died 1870 by Bedford of London. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST9066824440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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