Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382044
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382044
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bearley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 18184 60547
Details
BEARLEY
SP16SE CHURCH LANE
1457-1/5/3 (East side)
05/04/67 Church of St Mary
GV II
Church. C12 origins, chancel walls probably late C13/early
C14, with rebuilding of 1861-2 by N Hawkes including upper
parts of walls and windows, with added bell turret, and
restorations of 1962 by Cuthbert Lord.
MATERIALS: coursed lias stone with brownish-pink brick tower
and timber belfry and plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: continuous 4-bay nave and chancel with north porch
and west tower and blocked Norman doorway to south.
North side: buttresses; porch to second bay has moulded
plinth, round-arched opening with abaci and single order of
shafts, windows to either side have glass commemorating the
1962 restorations; within a pointed-arched opening with single
order of shafts and reset Romanesque capitals (badly worn),
within outer square order with remains of western capital,
plank door. Two pairs of renewed lancets to nave wall.
West tower has transverse pyramidal roof, single
pointed-arched window to south and west, slatted timber belfry
openings.
South side: buttresses; blocked round-arched doorway with
square pilaster jambs and imposts. 1- and 2-light lancet
windows. Decorative ridge tiles.
INTERIOR: restored 1962 with new furnishings and west gallery,
plaster walls, deeply-splayed window jambs; arched-brace
collar-truss roof. C19 octagonal font with quatrefoils.
(Victoria County History: Styles P (ed): County of Warwick:
Barlichway Hundred: London: 1945-: 43-4; Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 87; Shell
Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 37).
Listing NGR: SP1818460547
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 43-4
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 87
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 37
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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