Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383694
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- 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:
- 1383694
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- Caynham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 55374 73278
Details
CAYNHAM
SO57SE Church of St Mary
482-1/10/107
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. C12 tower, C12 nave and chancel rebuilt and extended
1885 by James Brookes.
MATERIALS: stone rubble with ashlar dressings to tower.
Rusticated coursed stone to C19 rebuild. Plain-tile roofs with
pyramid tower roof, ashlar coped chancel gable, ornamental
clay ridge.
PLAN: chancel with north vestry, nave with north aisle and
south porch, west tower.
EXTERIOR: chancel is 1885 rebuild with 3-light Decorated-style
east window with cusped cinquefoils. Ashlar-gabled diagonal
and side buttresses, gabled vestry projection with chimney
stack with rounded ashlar shafts. Rebuild incorporates
restored Decorated cusped lancet to north wall and 2 in the
south wall where there is an additional twin-cusped lancet
with quatrefoil over. Nave: 1885 rebuild of south wall with 3
tall lancets, one of which is a reset Norman lancet with
dogtooth dressed lintel. Reset and restored Norman south door
with dogtooth and chevron arch and scalloped capital and with
C19 tympanum and abaci. 1885 north aisle wall with broad flat
buttresses and 4 lancets, incorporating reset Norman lancet,
and former east window of 2 cusped lights with vesica over
reset in west aisle wall. South porch of 1885: stone with
tiled roof. 2-stage west tower: Transitional west doorway with
hoodmoulds on eroded figure-head imposts. Upper tower stage
with lancets. Roll-moulded string course around base.
INTERIOR: chancel with ribbed stone-vaulted roof springing off
C13 corbels with Early English moulding and undercut abaci.
Corbels probably reset. Transitional triple chancel arch with
central tall archway and arched side openings, all with plain
chamfered imposts and raised roll-moulded hoodmoulds on nave
side only. Nave: roof from 1885 rebuild of 8 bays with 9 pine
trusses, arched braced with scissor-struts over collar and
with clasped purlins. Aisle arcade of 3 arches on scalloped
capitals on large round shafts of 1885 date. Early English
font.
(An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire:
Cranage D H S: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SO5537473278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908)
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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