CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311867
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haynes
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08109 41190
Details
TL 04SE HAYNES CHURCH END
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23.1.61 Church of Saint Mary the
Virgin
GV II*
Parish church. C14 and C15, with extensive rebuilding 1850 by Henry Woodyer
for the Rev. Lord John Thynne. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Slate roofs with stone coped gables. Chancel, N vestry, N chapel,
nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Most windows reworked C19, with
pointed heads. Chancel:3-light E window, 2-light SW window. N vestry:
doorway to N elevation, single lights. N (Thynne) chapel: oeil-de-boeuf to E,
2 single lights to N, gabled roof. Nave: 4-bay pointed arched arcades, S one
C14, N one C19, Aisles: mainly 2-light windows, pointed arched doorway to N.
Gabled SE bay has rose window serving Carteret chapel. S porch: gabled, with
pointed doorway. W tower: C15. 3 stages, with octagonal stair turret to SW
angle. 2-light pointed windows to all sides of bell-stage and w elevation
lower stage. Pointed W doorway. Embattled parapet. Angle buttresses.
Interior: Chancel: decorative ribs and polychrome stencil patterning to roof
and walls. Brass to Anthony Newdigate, d.1568. Thynne chapel: alabaster
effigy of Lady Thynne, 1868 by H. H. Armstead. Canopy, floor and ironwork by
Sir George Gilbert Scott. E window by O'Connor. Polychrome stencil decration
and angel corbels to roof, by Clayton and Bell. Carteret chapel: monuments to
First Lord Carteret, d.1826 (marble portrait head in oval surround, by
Westmacott) and to 2nd. Lord Carteret, d.1838. Rose window with 6-cornered
star by Woodyer.
Listing NGR: TL0810941190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37627
- 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.
End of official listing
