Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. A C14 Church.

Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
unlit-moat-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1968
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1854 on an earlier site, designed by T. Nicholson. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a four-bay nave, a three-bay north aisle, an integral north-west tower, a south porch, a two-bay chancel, and a north vestry, all designed in a 14th-century Gothic style. Notable architectural elements include a plinth, buttresses—diagonal at the corners—and verge parapets.

The tower has two stages, with a string course leading to a battlemented octagonal top stage that includes ogee-headed bell chamber openings. The nave features windows with two trefoil-headed lights and returned hoodmoulds, as well as a moulded arched doorway in the second bay from the left, which has a boarded door. The gabled porch has a chamfered arch, boarded doors, and an inscription reading "DOMINUS CUSTODET INTROITUM TUUM" above, along with side benches inside. The west window consists of two trefoil-headed lights and Y-tracery. The north aisle has paired ogee-headed lights.

In the chancel, there are ogee-headed lancets with returned hoodmoulds, and the east window features three trefoiled ogee-headed lights with trefoiled tracery and a returned hoodmould.

Inside, the church has single framed roofs with braced collars and crested wall plates. The north aisle arcade consists of four bays with octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals, and double chamfered arches. The chancel arch is also double chamfered and dies into responds. There is a 19th-century octagonal stone font with a wooden cover, and the communion rails are made from parts of a late medieval screen, intricately carved with foliage, including vines and grapes, as well as figures, lions, dragons, and an inscription. The pews are marked with the names of farms in the parish, and there is a communion table dating from around 1620.

The former spire of the church was demolished in 1975.

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