Church Of St Mary The Virgin is a Grade I listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Mary The Virgin
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stone-scarlet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BROMFIELD
SO47NE Church of St Mary the Virgin 825-1/4/16 12/11/54
GV I
Benedictine Priory church, now Parish Church. c1155, with C13 and C16 additions. Restored 1890, by C Hodgson-Fowler?. Rubble and ashlar sandstone; plain tile roof. North-west tower, nave, north aisle and chancel. Blocked Norman chancel arch forms east end, with large round arch to north; tower forming porch, to northwest, probably late C13. South transept replaced by C16 house built by Charles Foxe after the Dissolution, but destroyed by fire late C17: now fragmentary with mullion and transom windows. INTERIOR: painted plaster ceiling c1672 by Thomas Francis, with Angels with scrolls, the Symbol of the Trinity, and clouds; c1700 communion rail with heavy twisted balusters; glass by Kempe in west window and north aisle, with C16 Flemish roundels in Vestry. (Cranage, D.H.S.,: An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire: PP. 70-76).
Listing NGR: SO4820076808
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