Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1339496
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1339496
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
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 THE BLESSED VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartley Wespall
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 69784 58315
Details
SU 65 NE HARTLEY WESPALL HARTLEY WESPALL 6/34 26.4.57 Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin
I C14, 'restored' 1868 by Sir Gilbert Scott. Apart from the west wall the church is of the later date, comprising an aisleless nave and chancel, a tower to the north of the chancel, and a small north porch. Tile roof. Flint walls with stone dressings, including 2 and 3-light windows, flush-band and buttresses to the outside corners. Above the eaves level the tower is tile-hung (on framework re-used from the old west tower) with a slatted bell cage and a shingled broach spire. Within the nave, in the form of 3 bays (4 trusses) there remains a fine open roof of the first period, with ornamental struts and arch-braced tie-beams, resting on timber verticals with attached 4-columns; there is also a timber-framed arched door into the porch. A feature of the building is the west wall, which has the exposed frame on the outside, with rendered infill; the upper part continues the roof design of the inside and below the tie-beam there is a massive vertical with braces on each side, all the framing having a cusped effect. Inside, there is a wall monument of 1692, a Jacobean pulpit (from the earlier church) and 2 floor slabs containing fragments of brass inlays (one of 1448). Grade I for importance of the mediaeval timber-framing.
Listing NGR: SU7002957698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138621
- 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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