Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Malvern Hills
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1968
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church largely dating from the 13th century, with fabric from the 12th century and additions and alterations from the 14th and 15th centuries, and a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of stone ashlar and rubble, with a slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles and transepts, a north porch, and a lower chancel.

The west tower was rebuilt in the later 15th century and has three stages with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The bell openings are each of two cinquefoiled lights under a pierced pointed head. The middle stage is lit on three sides by windows of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head. The west window is of four cinquefoiled lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery.

The west window of the north aisle is of three trefoiled lights with tracery. The north aisle has two windows of three trefoiled ogee lights with tracery. Between them is a 19th-century gabled porch, which has a moulded pointed outer arch with angle shafts. The west wall of the south aisle contains a single lancet light. The two south windows are of three trefoiled ogee lights with tracery under a pointed head. Between them is a 19th-century moulded pointed doorway. The north window of the north transept is of five cinquefoiled lights with a transom and Perpendicular tracery. The east and west windows of the transept are of three trefoiled lights with tracery. The south window of the south transept is 19th-century and of five lights.

The north wall of the chancel has three bays separated by buttresses and features 13th-century windows of two lancet lights within an outer pointed arch. The south wall of the chancel is of two bays, with similar windows, and has a moulded pointed doorway towards the west. The east window is of five stepped lancets under an outer arch.

Inside, the pointed tower arch has panelled reveals. The three-bay arcades have pointed arches of alternate green and white stone, chamfered in two orders on the north side and moulded on the south side. They spring from quatrefoil piers, those on the north and south sides differing in detail. The chancel arch is 19th-century and has engaged columns with foliated caps as responds. The nave roof is 19th-century and has a ribbed ceiling above moulded raised tie beams.

In the east wall of the south transept is a 13th-century piscina with a trefoiled head. On the south side of the chancel is an organ within a pointed arch. To the east are 13th-century triple sedilia and a piscina, moulded with trefoiled heads. The chancel has a collar-rafter roof.

Monuments under the tower include one to Elizabeth Eaton (died 1790), with a sarcophagus and urn, by Stephens of Worcester. On the north wall of the chancel is an altar tomb with an effigy of Sir Edmund Wylde (died 1620) against a shallow arch with columns, with balustrading and an achievement above. Fragments of 14th-century glass are re-set in windows on the north and south sides of the chancel.

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