Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099825
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099825
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Edith
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 60403 40656
Details
SO 64 SW; 3/161
STOKE EDITH CP,
STOKE EDITH
Church of St Mary
(Formerly listed as Parish Church)
26.01.67
GV
I
Parish church. C14 west tower with C17 recessed needle spire capped in
1940, nave and chancel rebuilt between 1740 and 1743 by Henry Flitcroft,
Clerk of Works to Crown for Thomas Foley. Dressed and coursed sandstone
rubble to tower with ashlar dressings. Stuccoed brick nave and chancel,
slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel. West tower, four stages with
diagonal buttressing and recessed needle spire (now capped); 2-light
windows to bell-stage and single lights to lower stages, door to west
on ground floor; nave and chancel, five bays, doorways to first and
last bays with moulded architraves and panelled doors, oculus above
each door, three semicircular-headed arched windows with pronounced
keystones and imposts, brackets to sills.
INTERIOR: pair of giant Tuscan
columns separate entrance bay and body of church, similar columns separate
marbled chancel end. Fittings: contemporary box pews remain intact.
Font: small marble bowl supported on wrought-iron stand. Monuments: on
north wall of entrance bay, late C15 tomb with alabaster effigy of female
in contemporary dress; many other wall tablets commemorating members of
Foley family.
Listing NGR: SO6040040654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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