Church Of St. Mary The Virgin

SU 64 SW PRESTON CANDOVER & NUTLEY ALRESFORD ROAD 19/29 Church of St Mary the Virgin

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1884-5, by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Early English style, with chancel, nave, narthex, north transept (vestry) north aisle and a north-west tower. Steeply-pitched red tile roof. Flint walling with stone dressings and brick banding; buttresses, hood-moulds, flush and projecting bands, plinth. The smallest windows in the northex are 4-cusped lights in square stone frames. Most windows are lancets but there are larger windows (of 2-lights in the transept, 3 to east window and 4 to west window) with traceried lights. The tower, of 3 stages, has a slender broach spire, stone bands corner buttresses with stone set-offs and brick quoins. The interior walling is in red brickwork, with sparse stone dressings, the pointed arcade resting on cylindrical columns, with square moulded caps and bases. The exposed timber roof has arch-braced trusses, resting on stone corbels, the chancel being ceiled with painted panels.

Listing NGR: SU6059741587