Church Of St Mary The Virgin

SU 75 SW GREYWELL

8/73 Church of St Mary The Virgin 24.11.61

• II *

C12, C13, C15, 1870. A small aisleless nave and western tower of Norman date, and a chancel restored (rebuilt) 1870. Red tile roof, lower over chancel. Walls are stone quoins, cement plinth, the chancel being of flint with stone dressings, a rood stair (c1500) projects on the north side as a semicircular turret with chequered walling of white stone and flint. Early English, Perpendicular and Victorian Decorated windows. Norman north doorway has dogtooth ornament, and a blocked south doorway. The tower has massive brick corner buttresses and some brick walling (late Cl7); the bell chamber and pyramid roof being clad in shingles. Inside there is a fine rood screen (c1500) on a later stone-walled base, a good octagonal C15 font, and Royal Coat of Arms of 1768. The north porch is Victorian, with a tiled gabled roof, a timber frame, with stone base.

Listing NGR: SU7153751279