Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371888
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371888
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston and Weedon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60160 46979
Details
WESTON AND WEEDON HIGH STREET
SP64NW (North side)
Weedon Lois
Church of St. Mary
(Formerly listed as Church of
St. Peter and St. Mary)
GV II*
Church. c.1100 herringbone masonry in west wall of nave and lower part of the
tower; early C13 remains in the chancel; the rest is C14 with a north aisle and
vestry of 1849. Limestone ashlar, coursed squared limestone and irionstone, lead
roof and C20 old tile roof to porch with south aisle extended beside chancel to
form a chapel. East and south windows of chancel are Victorian. Blocked early
C13 lancet in north wall, similar window in south wall, now forming inner wall
of south-east chapel. East window of south-east chapel, Decorated, 3-lights with
Reticulated tracery. All windows in south aisle Decorated. 2-lights with flowing
tracery and ogee hoods with carved finials. Priest's doorway with ogee-headed
arch in second bay from right. South porch also Decorated, has entrance arch
with continous mouldings. Inner doorway similar with C19 double plank doors.
Decorated west window to nave with Victorian tracery. Lower stage of tower
Norman. Upper stage Perpendicular with castellated parapet and bell openings of
2-cusped lights. Interior: Decorated recess below east window of chancel,
restored and some carving reset in C19. Has ogee hood with crockets and finial,
flanked by crocketed pinnacles. K.Lewis suggests that this was the shrine of St.
Lucien. Tower arches, C14, except that to the north which is C19. All have half
octagonal responds and double chamfered arches, and hood with head stops.
South-east chapel has C14 double-chamfered arch opening to the chancel and
similar arch with large head stops to the south aisle. Decorated piscina recess
with crocketed ogee hood in chapel. Piscina in south aisle also Decorated, has
recess with crocketed hood and large head stops. Two C14 tomb recesses with
continous mouldings in south aisle. Roofs C19. Font, Romanesque, circular with
leaf carving and beaded lunettes. Stone pulpit, 1849, copied from the octaganal
Perpendicular pulpit at Bloxham church. Wall paintings in south aisle, medieval,
fragmentory, said to represent two seated figures. There was a priory at Weedon
linked with the abbey at St. Lucien in Normandy. The present parish church was
the priory church. The monks are said to have brought with them relics of their
patron saint and there was a well dedicated to St. Lucien (also known as St.
Loys) south of the church. The priory was closed down in 1414.
Buildings of England: Northamptonshire; K. Lewis, Weedon St Lois, Priory and
Parish, Reprint 1978, Brackley.).
Listing NGR: SP6016046979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lewis, K, Weedon St Lois Priory and Parish, (1978)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973)
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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