Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367242
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367242
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bettws-y-Crwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2058481368
Details
SO 28 SW; 5/6
BETTWS-Y-CRWYN C.P.,
BETTWS-Y-CRWYN,
Church of St Mary
21.3.68
GV
II*
Parish church. Late C13 or C14, nave partly and chancel completely
rebuilt in 1860. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate
roof. Nave, chancel and south porch. Verge parapets; semi-integral
west bell-turret with plinth and set-back to gabled bellcote with
chamfered-arched opening. Nave: south side: three C19 windows,
paired lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops; chamfered arched
doorway between first and second windows from left with 6-panelled
doors; south porch with chamfered archway, side benches within and
hexagonal date stone in gable: "RESTORED/AD/1860". North side: 3 late
C13 or C14 lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops. Chancel: single
lancets to north and south with hoodmoulds and carved stops; C15-style
East window with three trefoiled ogee-headed lights, panelled tracery and
hoodmoulds with carved stops.
INTERIOR: C15 or early C16 six-bay nave
roof has arch-braced trusses with moulded bases, collars with cusped
V-struts above, two pairs of moulded purlins, and three tiers of cusped wind
braces forming quatrefoil panels; collar and tie-beam truss to west
with inclined queen struts and V-struts above collar; probably C19
two-bay chancel roof as nave; 8-bay late C15 or C16 screen has round-
arched lights with open tracery and bisecting mullions, moulded tie-
beam above and open quatrefoiled panel beneath, and central 2-bay opening
with carved spandrels; C17 octagonal wooden pulpit with lugged panels
and reader's desk with raised and fielded panels; C18 altar rails with
turned balusters but minus centre gate; C19 font with C17 panelled cover;
C19 pews with bold poppyheads and the names of farms within the parish
painted on; C19 panelled sanctuary. Late C18 and early C19 wall tablets.
Despite the unpromising exterior, the interior of this church, with its
excellent roof structure and screen, is most rewarding.
B.O.E., p.75;
Cranage, Vol.5, Pp.429-30. - -
Listing NGR: SO2058481368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 429-30
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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