Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296584
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296584
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHAPEL LANE
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, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wythall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07283 74885
Details
SP 07 SE WYTHALL CP CHAPEL LANE (west side)
7/196 Church of St Mary
24.4.74
GV II
Parish church. 1862 by F Preedy, tower added 1903 by W H Bidlake. Nave, south aisle, chancel, central tower. Polychromatic brickwork with stone dressings and slate roof. South aisle: three bays divided by stepped buttresses, entrance to left slightly advanced with gable over has a 2- centred arch with engaged respond shafts; one window to each bay of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred heads; chancel: two bays with lancets; east window: three trefoiled lights under 2-centred head. Tower of 1903 rises two stages above aisle. First stage has a 2-light window under 2- centred head; the belfy stage has on each side a pair of large open 2-light windows with 2-centred heads and multiple engaged shafts to responds, octagonal stair turret on north-east corner has a conical stone roof; roof gabled north/ south, surmounted by a fleche. Interior: polychromatic brickwork, three-bay arcade to south aisle of brick on stone columns; at crossing 2-centred arches in all directions with respond shafts. The massive tower is a prominent land- mark in the predominantly flat terrain around Wythall. (BoE, pp 337 - 338).
Listing NGR: SP0728374885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 337-338
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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