Church Of St Mary The Virgin

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