Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321977
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321977
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street
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 Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Slough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97634 79581
Details
SU 97 NE
4/4
SLOUGH
Church Street (west side)
Church Of St Mary
(Formerly listed as Parish Church of St. Mary)
29.9.50
II*
Church. 1876-8 enlarged 1911-3, by J. Oldrid Scott in a Decorated Gothic style. Red brick with Bath stone dressings and lacing courses, some banded flint and brick chequer-work, some diaper work, and string courses. Tile roofs with parapeted gable ends and lead aisle roofs. Five bay nave, aisles, south-west porch, north-west tower, north and south transeptal chapels at west end of nave, lower two bay chancel, and south vestry.
Tower: three stages with diagonal buttresses, gabled south-west newel turret rising to second stage, battlemented parapet, and panelled corner pinnacles with flying buttresses to stone spire with lucarnes on cardinal faces. Two-light louvred bell stage openings with Y-tracery in recessed moulded arches with hoodmoulds and carved stops. Clocks beneath to north, east and west. Paired cusped lancets in second stage to east and west with four blank arches below; first stage window to north with Y-tracery,hoodmould, and carved stops; western entrance with two boarded doors and surround with flower ornament; recessed in moulded archway with shafts, cusping, and virgin and child in quatrefoil at apex of projecting gabled surround.
Nave: clerestory: paired round arches with alternating traceried circular windows and gabled buttresses.
West-front: tall central two-light window with hoodmould and finial, two low flanking buttresses, two lower flanking lancets with hoodmoulds, and small rectangular opening in gable end.
Aisles: paired two-light windows with hoodmoulds and carved stops.
South-west porch: square plan with angle buttresses, parapet, and pyramidal lead roof with finial. Two boarded doors to west with chamfered arch, hoodmould with carved stops, and lancet to left. Paired lancets to south.
Transeptal chapels: large four-light moulded windows to north and south with central shafts and geometrical tracery, and lean-to porches to west with arched west doorways.
Chancel: angle buttresses, two moulded lancets to north and south; five-light east window with moulded arch, shafting, slightly taller central light and geometrical tracery; carved frieze at eaves level, and five stepped ogee arches in apex of gable, outer pairs blank and central glazed.
Vestry: three two-light windows to south and boarded door between first and second from east. Three-light east window under segmental head.
Interior: five bay aisle arcades with circular piers, foliated capitals, trefoiled circles in spandrels, and shafting to roof. Internal window shafting and double arches at west end
of aisles. Moulded chancel arch with foliated capitals, and two arches to north and south in chancel with quatrefoils in spandrels. Triple arched chancel screen with shafts, foliated capitals, pierced spandrels and stepped parapet. Fittings include; tiled sanctuary triptych, wrought iron altar rail, arcaded octagonal marble pulpit and marble font with four shafts around central larger shaft. Glass in west windows of 1915 by Alfred A. Wolmark consisting of an entirely abstract arrangement of geometrical shapes, important as pioneer works as they were unmatched for at least 40 years. Other glass by Kempe. Outside stone plaque in east wall of Chancel inscribed: "In Dei Gloriam MDCCCLXXVI", Outside stone plaque in north wall of tower inscribed:
"In Dei Gloriam MCMXII".
Listing NGR: SU9763479581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38709
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Maxwell, F, The History of Slough, (1973), 142-3
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908)
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 3 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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