Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237211
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- 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:
- 1237211
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- 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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whixall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51797 34861
Details
WHIXALL CP WHITALL SJ 53 SW 6/214 Church of St Mary 28.10.60 - II Parish church. 1867 by G E Street. Red brick (English bond) with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roofs with ornamental cresting and coped verges. Nave and chancel with full-length north aisle and vestry. Nave: in 4 bays on double- chamfered plinths; plain 2-light windows with plate tracery and shallow leanto porch with pointed arch in west bay. West window of 4 broad lancets with 2 roundels and one quatrefoil above. Lead-covered spirelet with louvred belfry at east end. Lean-to north aisle has 6 broad paired lancets with trefoil heads and similar window of 3 lights to east; eastern part incorporates vestry/organ chamber with shouldered arch to doorway. Chancel: in 2 bays on triple-chamfered plinth has string course and angle buttresses at east end. South side has lancet to west and window with plate tracery to east. East window of 3 lancets with sexfoil above. Interior: brickwork exposed with trussed rafter roofs to nave and chancel, latter boarded. North nave arcade in 4 pointed bays has circular stone piers with moulded plinths and capping. Pointed chancel arch-on corbelled responds. Fittings and furnishings including low stone screen to chancel, altar rails, stone pulpit and early English style, font at west end with clustered columns all by street. Late C18 or early Cl9 benefactors boards on north wall of north aisle and C17 font come from an earlier chapel. Font is hexagonal and dated 1608; ornamented with a scalloped shell, a lion rampant, birds, rosettes and fleur-de-lys; formerly with a Jacobean font cover. Brass plate in chanel records that present church was erected in 1867 "in grateful recognition of the character and services of John Allen, vicar of Prees and Archdeacon of Salop". Whixall was originally a dependent chapelry of Prees and the site of the previous chapel, which dated to C17, lies approximately a quarter of a mile to the south (N.G.R SJ 516 344). B.O.E. p.318; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 8 (1906) p.740.
Listing NGR: SJ5179734861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, The Churches of Shrewsbury, (1894-1908), 740
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 318
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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