Church Of St Mary The Virgin

ULLENHALL

SP16NW CHURCH HILL 652-1/5/223 (South side) 02/08/72 Church of St Mary the Virgin

GV II

Church. 1875 by JP Seddon. MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs and coped stone gables, ornamental ridge tiles. STYLE: Early English. PLAN: 3-bay nave with aisles, north porch, south-west tower in 3 stages, single-bay transepts, apsidal chancel. EXTERIOR: angle buttresses to nave, straight buttresses to porch, with off-sets. Chamfered plinth; continuous sill band. Porch has plank door in 4-centred pointed arch within projecting surround with shallow gable and finials; above a small rose window. Nave: 7 cusped lancets to south and 6 to north. West end has 4-light window with bar tracery to head. Aisles have cusped lancets to west ends. Tower: has lancet windows, broached octagonal bellstage and slender spire. Transepts: 3-light window to north with bar tracery to head, group of 4 cinquefoil lights to south, otherwise transepts have cusped lights. Apse has 7 cusped lancets with slender colonnettes on band to each angle, with horizontal crescent-shaped band beneath and ornate frieze. INTERIOR: double-chamfered arcades have outer clusters of 3 columns, with single column to centre, all with roll-moulding to head and water-holding bases. Similar double-chamfered arches to transepts. Aisle windows have arcade of slender shafts with roll-moulded capitals and water-holding bases; similar full-height arcade to chancel. Stencilled wagon roofs to nave and chancel, half-wagons in the aisles. Octagonal font with trefoiled panels with fishes in net motif. Forms a group with gates, piers and railings to Churchyard (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 437).

Listing NGR: SP1206667222