Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382195
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382195
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
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 VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20621 62333
Details
WOLVERTON
SP26SW MAIN STREET
1457-1/6/125 (West side (off))
05/04/67 Church of St Mary the Virgin
II*
Church. Origins of 1208, with later additions and alterations
including windows and priest's doorway probably late C14, C16
sanctuary ring and iron-work, with C19 porch, vestry, bell
turret and restorations, including rebuilding of east end.
MATERIALS: coursed lias stone rubble with ashlar east end,
timber porch and bell turret, and plain-tile roof.
STYLE: Early English and Decorated.
PLAN: 3-bay nave with south porch, lower 2-bay chancel with
north vestry.
EXTERIOR: entrance: glazed and gabled south porch has
decorative bargeboards, and traceried decoration to sides.
Within is a double-chamfered, 4-centred arch and studded plank
door with strap hinges, sanctuary ring and lock. Nave has
chamfered plinth. South side: diagonal west buttress with
off-sets; 2- and 3-light windows with trefoil-headed tracery
in double-chamfered, 4-centred arches. North side: buttresses
with off-sets between bays and diagonal buttress to west;
westernmost window has 3 lights with Y-tracery to head in
double-chamfered surround with hoodmould.
North doorway to centre bay: plank door with double-chamfered
pointed arch. Then a 2-light window with reticulated tracery.
West end: central buttress with off-sets between 2 lancet
lights in chamfered surrounds. Short bell turret with broach
spire and pierced openings.
Chancel: south side has double-chamfered plinth, partly
renewed.
Priest's entrance: plank door in double-chamfered, 4-centred
arch; renewed ogee-headed lancet in chamfered surround and a
2-light window with reticulated tracery to head.
North side: ogee-headed lancet; vestry has Decorated-style
2-light window. East end has 3-light window with
Decorated-type tracery to head in double-chamfered surround
with hoodmould.
INTERIOR: oak screen, much restored, has Perpendicular tracery
to upper stage. Ogeed piscina. Wagon roofs. Octagonal font on
octagonal plinth has quatrefoil decoration. Marble wall
tablets with festoon embellishment to: Thomas Stanton `Lord of
the Mannor' d.1701; his son Thomas, d.1719; and Thomas Stanton
d.1664 and his wife Elizabeth d.1703. In north nave window are
many fragments of medieval stained glass, some in other
windows, south window of chancel has late Morris glass.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 479).
Listing NGR: SP2062162333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 479
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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