Church Of St Mary Le More is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1949. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.

Church Of St Mary Le More

WRENN ID
white-cupola-clover
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1949
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary-le-More is a church located in Wallingford, with a tower dating from around 1653 and the main church structure completed in 1854 by architect David Brandon, along with 20th-century restoration work. The building is constructed from napped flint with stone dressings, and the tower features a mixture of flint and stone with stone dressing. The roof is covered with plain tiles from the 20th century.

Architecturally, the church has a three-bay nave, four-bay aisles, a three-bay chancel, and a west tower, all designed in an Early English style. The north aisle has a plank door leading to a two-centred arched doorway with a gabled porch positioned to the left of the center. To the right of the chancel, there is another two-centre arched doorway with a plank door. The church is adorned with geometrical tracery windows in all openings, except for a three-light intersecting tracery window located at the left end of the north aisle. The tower features octagonal corner turrets topped with 20th-century fibreglass replacement pinnacles, and there are perpendicular two-light stone mullioned louvred openings on each side of the tower's top, with the northern opening obscured by a clock face. The tower is capped with a battlemented parapet, and there is a 20th-century refaced stone stair turret at the rear.

Inside, the church features a 19th-century marble reredos and sanctuary area embellished with Salviati mosaic bands. There is a piscina and sedilia to the right of the chancel, and the chancel has an arch-braced roof. A wood rood screen in the Perpendicular style from the early 20th century includes painted carved figures. The nave also has an arch-braced roof with four-light dormers that create a clerestory, and the aisles have arch-braced roofs as well. A pulpit made of grey-veined white marble, dating from around 1888, is adorned with bronze panels depicting saints created by Onslow Ford.

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