CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355369
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355369
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MILBURGA

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Wixford
National Grid Reference:: SP 09000 54940

Details

SPO5SE WIXFORD

Church of St. Milburga 5/124 01/02/67

GV II*

Church. C12 and C13. South chapel c.1400. Restored c.1881, timber porch and bell turret probably of that date. Regular coursed lias with limestone dressings and irregular quoins. Chapel has alternating thick and thin courses. Old tile roofs, with some C20 tile to north, and C19 coped gables. Nave and chancel in one, south chapel and porch, west turret. Medieval ribbed and studded south door in corner between nave and chapel, set in Romanesque door- way with simple arch and shafts with cushion capitals. Very simple Romanesque north door, blocked. Nave has Early English lancets, one to south, 2 to west, one to north-east. North side has two 2-light C19 Decorated windows. Single west buttress. Turret with 2 Perpendicular traceried openings to each face. Chancel has simple Decorated east window and a straight-headed 2-light Decorated south window with hood mould, probably renewed. To the north one lancet and a window of 2 tiny steep lancets with a shaft and head, cut from a single block of yellow Campden stone, possibly C12 or earlier. Perpendicular chapel with much restored 5-light east window, straight headed 2 and 3-light windows and a small door to the south. Interior: boarded wagon roofs panelled with thin ribs and carved bosses, and 2 decorative roof arches of thin elaborate Gothic openwork to chancel, probably early C19. Chancel has decorated piscina with plain canopy curving forward and nodding ogee arch opening. Early C15 oak screens: lower part of chancel screen and part of side screen to chapel survive and have moulded rail and muntins. C19 encaustic tile floor. 2-bay Perpendicular arcade with octagonal piers to chapel. Chapel has fragments of old stained glass re-set in windows. Piscina with embattled top. Brass: chest tomb in centre of chapel with very fine brasses to Thomas de Cruwe (died 1411) and his wife. Figures under ogee-headed canopies with inscriptions, badges and coats of arms, all intact. Very finely detailed . Said to be 'the finest brasses in the County' (Buildings of England). 2 small late C16 memorial brasses. Nave has C19 font. (V.C.H. Warwickshire III p.191; Buildings of England: Warwickshire pp. 475-476; tlelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire 1884 p.908).

Listing NGR: SP0900054940

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Legacy System number:: 305138
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 191
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 475-476
'Kellys Directory' in Birmingham Staffordshire and Warwickshire, (1884), 908

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.