Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345795
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345795
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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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.
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 SAINT MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardington Mandeville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51232 11932
Details
ST51SW HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE CP
4/168 Church of Saint Mary
19.4.61
GV II*
Church. Early foundation, rebuilt 1123 with much C15 and C19 work (1864). Ham stone, cut and squared rubble with ashlar dressings; plain clay tiles with bands of fish-scale tiles between coped gables, ornamental ridge to chancel; lead roof to North aisle, and single bay North Chapel/Organ chamber, with South porch and West Tower. Chancel largely rebuilt in 1864, with plinth, angled corner buttresses; C14 type tracery to 3-light East window; on South wall a C13 style group of 3 cusped lancets, and a C16 style single light under square label, and between them a plain arched doorway. North chapel in C14 style, but a C19 rebuild, with 3-light traceried North window and 2-light traceried East window. North aisle has offset buttresses marking each bay, with cusped lancets between them, and C14 style traceried 2-light window in West wall, matching those to South wall of nave which are also set between offset buttresses. The South porch of C19, in C15 style. Tower probably of 1123, in three stages, with plinth and string courses marking each stage, plain parapet with small gargoyles and pinnacles to each corner; no buttresses, but square plan stair turret for stage-and-a-half on West end of South face: Stage 1 has plain moulded pointed arched West door, and above a 3-light C15 traceried window set in hollowed recess; on stage-2 clock faces to South and West faces; stage-3 has 2-light simple C15 tracerled windows set in hollowed recesses, one to each face; that to North side has reticulated tracery but may not be earlier; ornamented pierced stone baffles to each window; roof a shallow pyramid with stone slates and stone ridges. Internally all of the work is C19, even the convincing C12 style North Chapel arch, which was carved by Revd, J. Hancock, curate of nearby Haselbury. Surviving features include circular font of possibly 1123, with cable mould around waisted base and lozenge ornamental band below rim; good C16 alter table with bulbens legs; wood pulpit of early C17, and 3-panel parish chest of C17. The clock mechanism no later than 1707, 6 bills in tower, 3 from the Purdue (Closworth) foundry, one dated 1591 and three of C17, one C18 and one C20.
Listing NGR: ST5123211932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263726
- 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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