Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Compton Wynyates
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024351
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Compton Wynyates
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024351
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Compton Wynyates
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, Compton Wynyates
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Wynyates
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 33008 41926
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 March 2026 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards
SP34SW
3/74
COMPTON WYNYATES
Church of St Mary
(Formerly listed as Parish Church (dedication unknown))
22/09/81
GV
I
Church. Nearly entirely rebuilt c.1665. Ashlar ironstone. Stone plinth. Steeply pitched M-shaped roof: Stone slate to diminishing courses to front and C20 tile to rear. Stone coped gables. Double-nave and west tower plan. Two round-headed east windows of three lights with cusped heads and hood moulds with lozenge shaped label stops. North and south sides of naves each have two four-light windows with cusped heads, hood moulds and label stops. Buttresses between. South doorway has stone surround with alternating rustication. Plank door. West tower. Three stages. Pointed arched two-light windows with Y tracery, hood moulds and label stops to belfry. Embattled parapet with gargoyles. String courses. Angle buttresses.
Interior: the two naves are separated by a four bay arcade with quatrefoil piers. Renewed roofs. Three-sided C18 communion rail. Pulpit with ogee sounding board c.1720. C18 box pews. Stone font with oval bowl, baluster stem and wooden cover probably late C17. Set of 17 hatchments. A number of damaged C15, alabaster effigies of the Compton family including a lady C15, Sir Thomas Compton d.1528, Knight late C16, two ladies late C16. Marble wall tablet to Sir William Compton d.1663. Vases in broken segmental pediment. Brass floor plaque to Sir William Compton dated 1663. Fragments of original painted plaster ceiling exhibited on west wall include representations of night and day.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 1981, p.242; Guidebook to Compton Wynyates, p.21; V.C.H.; Warwickshire, Vol.V, pp.60-67).
Listing NGR: SP3300841929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305837
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guidebook to Compton Wynyates, (), 21
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 60-67
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 242
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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