Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1167020
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- 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:
- 1167020
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- 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:
- Middleton-on-the-Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 54052 64606
Details
SO 56 SW; 7/46
MIDDLETON ON THE HILL CP, Church of St Mary
11.06.59
I
Parish church. C12 chancel and nave, early C13 tower with C15 top stage;
south porch rebuilt in 1745, nave roof renewed in 1890. Sandstone rubble
with dressings of the same material, tiled roof. West tower, nave with
south porch and chancel.
West tower: three stages with moulded and splayed
plinth and C15 embattled parapet with pinnacles at the angles, lancet windows
to north and west, C18 doorway to south, similar lancet windows to second
stage, C18 openings in bell stage with two-centred arched heads and rubble
infill in the head. Nave: buttresses flank doorways; south side: windows
of one cinquefoiled light flank central enlarged C12 light with semicircular
head, to the right of the timber-framed south porch, which incorporates earlier
pieces of timber, C12 south doorway with semicircular head, jambs of two
plain orders, inner supports solid lintel, billet ornament to imposts and zig-
zag ornament to head; rubble infill to tympanum. North side of nave has three
windows to east of blocked north doorway; easternmost window of one cinquefoil
headed light with both windows to the west of one C12 semicircular-headed light.
North doorway: semicircular-headed with jambs of two plain orders, inner supports
joggled lintel with rubble infill to tympanum, moulded and diapered imposts to
outer order with zig-zag and pellets to rounded head, label also decorated with
pellet ornament. Chancel: C13 lancet to south and C12 doorway to left of
window with semicircular shaped head and chamfered jambs. C12 window of one
semicircular-headed light to north. Early C14 reset east window [from Church
of St Peter, Pudlestone CP (qv)] of three cinquefoil-headed lights. INTERIOR:
C12 semicircular-headed chancel arch of two plain orders with moulded imposts
and diaper ornament, two-centred tower arch of one chamfered order. Fittings:
late C12 font; circular cup-shaped bowl with chevron ornament and necking, stout
cylindrical stem. C13 piscina in the chancel with trefoil head.
Listing NGR: SO5405164605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150536
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 14
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 252
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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