Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, ABCHURCH LANE EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1359119
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ABCHURCH LANE EC4
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1359119
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ABCHURCH LANE EC4
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, ABCHURCH LANE EC4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32755 80927
Details
1. 5002 ABCHURCH LANE EC4 (West Side) Church of St Mary TQ 3280 NE 16/443
4.1.50.
I GV
2. 1681 to 87 by Wren. Nearly square body with plaster vault supporting large dome. North-west tower with gallery to south of it. Plain exterior of red brick with dressings of Portland stone. Moulded brick band and parapet hipped, slated roof. Large, segmentally-arched window to each front (north side obscured) flanked by round-arched openingswith circular ones above. Arched and corniced door under western window on south side. West front altered. Plain tower in 4 stages with round-arched and circular openings. Lowest stage now rendered with arched and corniced doorway. Square lead covered dome with plain lantern and spire. Interior remarkable for its dome, which has decorative paintings extending into the splayed reveals of 4 elliptical dormers. Vault springs from enriched corbels and from Corinthian column and pilaster defining west gallery which has enclosed vestry beneath northern half. Very fine original reredos by Grinling Gibbons 1686, pulpit with tester, font with cover and rails, organ case and gallery front, doorcases wall pews, 2 sword rests etc. Stone doorway to octagonal, domed lobby in base of tower. God wall monuments. One of the least altered of Wren's churches.
Listing NGR: TQ3275480927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199266
- 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.
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