Parish Church of St Mary
Parish Church of St Mary, Church End, Felmersham, MK43 7JB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321569
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Church End, Felmersham, MK43 7JB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321569
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Church End, Felmersham, MK43 7JB
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:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Church End, Felmersham, MK43 7JB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Felmersham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99141 57846
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 November 2022 to correct the address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 9957
21/133
FELMERSHAM
CHURCH END
Parish Church of St Mary
(formerly listed as Parish Church of St Mary, HIGH ROAD, previously listed as St Mary The Virgin)
13.7.64
GV
I
Predominantly C13 parish church with some C15 alterations and C19 restoration. Limestone rubble walling and ashlar dressings. Cruciform plan of chancel, central tower, transepts, and aisled nave with porch to south.
Three bay chancel with modern tracery in east window, and three early C13 lancet windows with moulded string under, inside and out. Locker in north wall, double piscina and door in south wall. Plain east and west crossing arches of three orders, three bay C15 screen with tracery and coved half-vault under former rood loft and inscription. North transept has door to octagonal tower staircase, three lancets in north wall and single lancets in east and west walls. Shallower south transept, with lancet to east and two tall lancets to south with hoods over; piscina at south east. Four bay nave with C13 arcade and C15 clerestory windows with two cinquefoiled lights. West front of nave has deeply moulded central doorway flanked by blank arches with tracery, under a seven bay wall arcade surmounted by a top stage with central three-centred arch flanked by two narrower pointed arches, each enclosing a lancet window: low pitched C15 embattled gable over. Aisles have some C13 restored windows. Tower of three stages, the upper added in C15, together with embattled parapet and south east turret. Second stage has two three bay arcades. Font. Two C17 brasses.
Listing NGR: SP9914157846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36911
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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