CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382684
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382684
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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 MARY

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch
National Grid Reference:: SP 22654 48622

Details

WHITCHURCH

SP24NW Church of St Mary 1912-1/6/175 02/08/72 (Formerly Listed as: ALDERMINSTER Church of St Mary)

II*

Church. Late C11 nave with early C12 eastern half; late C12 chancel, lengthened in early C13 and remodelled c1500. C17 bellcote, repairs and shortening of nave; C18 and C19 restorations. MATERIALS: rubble, including some late C11 herringbone to nave western half, and coursed squared stone; ashlar dressings; slate roofs and shingled bellcote. Coped gables. EXTERIOR: chancel has offset plinth; c1500 5-light east window with 2 king mullions between 2 shallow buttresses; 3 shields to gable. North side has C12 round-headed light altered to lancet in C13, and 2:1:2-light straight-headed c1500 window to east with part of blocked entrance below. South side has 2 similar windows, one partly raised over C13 priest's entrance; traces of blocked windows. Nave north side has rubble and ashlar, offset buttress, eaves corbels and C12 round-headed light to east half, some herringbone masonry to west half. South side of nave is similar, of ashlar, and has probably C18 straight-headed window with 3 elliptical-headed lights to east, some contemporary ashlar and buttress; west half has late C13 window and re-set C12 round-headed entrance of single order, C17 ashlar above incorporates relief of Paschal Lamb with worn painted sundial to left dated 1646. C17 west wall including straight-headed window of 3 elliptical-headed lights, small shuttered light above and timber-framed square bellcote with shingling to walls and pyramid roof; 3-light louvred bell openings with enriched heads. INTERIOR: chancel has C19 waggon roof, north and south walls slope outwards; wide hollow-chamfered reveals of east window have hacked-off image plinths on octagonal shafts and mutilated canopies; north side has C15 tomb recess, jambs to 2 removed C12 windows and jambs of blocked opening; south side has blocked C12 window and signs of another, rectangular recess with piscina bowl to left; east end has shallow recess rebated for door to right. Chancel arch has C12 responds with paired shafts and C13 triple-stop-chamfered arch. Nave has C17 roof trusses with queen struts to collars, and earlier arch-braced timber posts supporting bellcote; re-set panel of Anglo-Danish interlace to west wall. FITTINGS: chancel has enriched panelling to east wall with cornice and cresting, recess to right has open-work door; 2 housel benches, one C17 and one dated 1923. Nave has pulpit with early C17 panels to 3 sides; early C17 painted Royal Arms in nowy-headed frame, altered c1714; C18 plain octagonal font; screened-in vestry to north-west angle and screen by entrance. STAINED GLASS: C15 chancel side windows have late C15 glass, sacred monograms, armorial bearings and flowers in tracery, with decorative C19 quarries below; C19 glass in tracery of east window, and figure to central light; C19 figure in north wall west window; nave west window has 1989 panel. MONUMENTS: William Smyth, rector, d.1442: chest tomb to north side of chancel has white marble slab with moulded edge and incised with cross, chalice and book; black-letter inscription to border; later graffiti including outline of foot and R W 1759. 2 floor slabs to Lucy Ann and Hester, d.1681 and 1686, wives of Thomas Mariett. Floor slab to members of Richard Marriett's family, d.1701, 1702, 1704. Sculpture: re-set stone to right of west window has Anglo-Danish interlace panel to one end. The church stands on the site of a medieval village deserted by the mid C16; only a barn and cottage dated 1826 stand near. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 471-2; Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 211-3; St Mary the Virgin, Whitchurch (4-page leaflet)).

Listing NGR: SP2265448622

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Legacy System number:: 483068
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Sources

Books and journals
St Mary the Virgin, Whitchurch
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 471-72
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 211-13

Legal

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