Church Of St Mary Le More

WALLINGFORD MARKET PLACE SU6089SE (South side) Wallingford 11/115 Church of St. Mary-le-More 09/12/49 (Formerly listed as Parish Church of St. Mary)

GU II*

Church. Tower of c.1653, church of 1854 by David Brandon, with C20 restoration. napped flint with stone dressings; flint and stone mixture with stone dressing to tower; C20 plain-tile roof. 3-bay nave, 4-bay aisles, 3-bay chancel and west tower. Early English-style. Plank door to 2-centred arched doorway with gabled porch to left of centre of north aisle. 2-centre arched doorway to right of chancel with plank door. Geometrical tracery windows to all openings except 3-light intersecting tracery window to left and end of north aisle. Tower has octagonal corner turrets with C20 fibreglass replacement pinnacles. Perpendicular 2-light stone mullioned louvred opening to each side of top of tower, that to north obscured by clock face. Battlemented parapet. C20 refaced stone stair turret to rear. Interior: C19 marble reredos and sanctuary area with Salviati mosaic bands. Piscina and sedilia to right of chancel. Arch-braced roof to chancel. Early C20 Perpendicular-style wood rood screen with painted carved figures. Arch-braced roof to nave with 4-light dormers forming clerestory. Arch braced roofs to aisles. Pulpit c.1888 of grey-veined white marble with bronze panels of saints by Onslow Ford. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923, p.539; Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1966, p.247-B).

Listing NGR: SU6071289327