Parish Church Of St Mary

TL 35 NE HARDWICK MAIN STREET (West Side)

8/141 Parish Church of 31.8.62 St Mary

II*

Parish Church. Late C14, nave, chancel, and tower with one notably earlier C14 chancel window. Restored in 1901 by Mr Rickett of Abingdon directed by Detmar Blow (1867-1939). Walls of field stones with limestone and clunch dressings. Roofs of tiles and slate. South elevation: Tower of three stages offset at each stage, with plinth and embattled parapet and without buttresses. Belfry light round-headed arch in two-centred sealed arch. Ashlar octagonal spire with spirelights. Nave with parapet gable extending as buttress to east, diagonal buttress to west. Three two-light traceried windows, south doorway with chamfered jambs and moulded head, south porch, C15 with semi octagonal shafts to archway with four-centred head. Chancel with diagonal buttress of two stages, one early C14 window of two-trefoiled- lights with net tracery and one window of two cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoil. Interior: chancel arch C15 with semi octagonal shafts and two chamfered orders, tower arch of three, and two chamfered orders. Fine C15 queen-post roofs to chancel and nave with embattled cornices. Font, octagonal bowl with splayed underside on modern base C13. Piscina with four-centred arch, C15. Gothic, cast iron communion rail c.1900. Oak chest C17.

RCHM West Cambs. p127, mon. 1 (plate 102) Pevsner: Buildings of England, p400 VCH, Vol. V, p104

Listing NGR: TL3722958607