Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1332059
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1332059
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bledlow-cum-Saunderton
National Grid Reference:
SP 79555 01890

Details

BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON CHURCH LANE SP 70 SE (SAUNDERTON) 1/25 Church of St. Mary

21.6.55

- II*

Parish church. Rebuilt 1888-91, incorporating restored C14 windows and doorways. Flint with stone dressings, tiled roofs, shingled bell- tower, timber-framed porch. 2-bay nave with bell-tower set in W. bay, 2-bay chancel, N. vestry, S. porch. 2-light traceried windows, mostly with Y tracery, the nave with similar 3-light window to N. and single cusped light over main W. window. C19 3-light traceried E. window; pair of lights with 4-centred heads and Tudor hoodmould in S. wall of chancel. Moulded S. doorway with carved head label stops; small blocked N. doorway with chamfered arch and label; small blocked doorway to S. of chancel. Bell-tower has louvred openings and pyramidal roof. Interior: timber frame of bell-tower is probably C15 with crossed braces. Cusped piscina. C19 roofs. Fittings: C12-C13 font, a smaller version of the "Aylesbury" type with fluted bowl, carved foliage frieze, part of cable moulding, and later base; screen incorporating medieval traceried panels; small medieval floor tiles re-set in vestry; 2 C18-C19 painted texts; C19 glass and other fittings. Small brass with half-figure of Isabella Saunterdon.

Listing NGR: SP7955501890

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Legacy System number:
46505
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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