Parish Church Of St Mary The Virgin

TL 1446 NORTHILL ICKWELL ROAD (West Side)

8/82 Parish Church of St Mary 31,l0.66 the Virgin

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Parish church, serving as a collegiate church 1404-1547. Mainly C14, with some C15 details and some late C19 reworking including most window tracery. Ironstone, dressings mostly in Totternhoe clunch. Slate roofs. Chancel, N vestry and organ chamber, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Chancel: plain parapet. 5-light E window of 1880. 3 3-light S windows, E one retaining some original tracery. Priest's door below central window. NW opening onto organ retains original window jambs. Door to R of this gives onto organ chamber and vestry, added 1862 by H. Woodyer. Fenestration of this addition includes a rose window. Plain parapets. Chancel arch rebuilt 1862. Nave: 4 bay pointed arched arcades to N and S, on 4 shafted piers. All of ironstone except all responds and capitals of western piers of both arcades. N aisle: 4 bays, divided by buttresses. E window, now without tracery, opens onto organ chamber. C15 windows to first and second bays, C14 door to third bay, C14 window to fourth bay. C14 W window. S aisle: similar fenestration to N aisle. Pointed arched S doorway. Embattled parapets to aisles. S porch: much restored C19. 2 storeyed, the vaulting and parvis added C15. Vaulting is in 2 bays, with 3 carved bosses, one showing the arms of Sir John Trailly. Stairs to W. Parvis, originally a chapel to St Anne, has 4-light opening onto S aisle and 2-light S window. Embattled parapet. W tower: 3 stages, top stage C15. 4-stage angle buttresses. Stair turret to NE corner. S elevation has C19 doorway. W elevation has 3-light window, surmounted by narrow single light. Top stage has 2-light pointed arch window to N and S elevations, and paired 2-light windows under square head to W and E elevations. Embattled parapet. Interior: mid-late C19 font. C19 rood screen includes some C15 work, as do the choir stalls, and the parvis stair door. Chancel roof is C19, but nave roof, in 4 bays with strutted crown posts and plain aisle roofs, may date back to C14. N aisle has wall monument to John Harvey, d.1793, by T King of Bath, showing oval with inscription beside draped urn. S aisle has 3 large panels of stained glass of 1664 by John Oliver. Commissioned by the Company of Grocers to commemorate some restoration work and the re-endowment of the living in the will of Lady Margaret Slaney, d.1619. Originally formed E window, depicting Royal arms of Charles II in the central light, flanked by the arms of the Grocers' Company and of Margaret Slaney. Removed to S aisle in 1880. 2 windows by C E Kempe, one to N aisle (1897) one to chancel (1906). W windows of aisles and tower by Clayton and Bell.

Listing NGR: TL1490046551