Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319266
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319266
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT 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 SAINT MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mentmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 90385 19776
Details
SP 91 NW MENTMORE
4/116 Church of St. Mary
18.10.66
GV II*
Parish church. Some early C13 details, aisles rebuilt C14 and C15, late C15 W. tower, nave arcades and clerestory, chancel rebuilt and remainder very much restored 1858 by G.H. Stokes. C19 S. porch and N. vestry. Dressed limestone, tiled roofs to chancel and porch, lead roofs to remainder. W. tower of 2 stages has plinth, battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses and square stair tower to S.E. Bell-chamber has 2-light traceried openings. 3-light cusped window over nave and aisles. 3-bay clerestory has 3-light cusped windows with 4-centred heads. Aisles have 2-light traceried windows, the S. aisle irregular with 3-light E. window and one window to S. with flat head and X tracery. S. door in moulded 2-centred arch. Chancel has one bay of lancets, additional 2-light traceried window to S., and 3-light traceried E. window. Vestry to north. Interior: Tower has double hollow chamfered arch on attached shafts, with moulded caps. Nave arcades of 3 bays have moulded arches on quatrefoil piers with shafts in angles, battlemented capitals and bases made out of C13 stiff-leaf capitals. C19 roof retaining C15-C16 carved figures of angels, restored. Chancel arch rebuilt C19 with double- chamfered arch on semi-octagonal piers and with small carved stone angel stops. Fittings: round medieval font; fragments of C15 glass in window in N. aisle; C17 altar table with turned balusters and fluted frieze in N. aisle; glass in E. window 1890 by Kempe; other fittings C19. Monuments: W. wall of N. aisle has small brass to John Theede 1641; marble wall tablet above to Thomas Theed 1702 with carved draperies, winged cherub heads and coat of arms. RCHM II p. 195-6.
Listing NGR: SP9038519776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42101
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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