Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- nether-quoin-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 14th century, with alterations in the 15th century and subsequent periods. The chancel was restored in 1735 and 1905, the south porch in 1793, the north aisle was rebuilt in 1820, and the vestry was added in 1840. The church is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, and the roofs are concealed behind ashlar parapets, embattled to the chancel.
The west tower has three stages, with ashlar facing on the lowest stage. It features diagonal buttresses, a plain embattled parapet with gargoyles and pinnacles, two-light plain windows to the second stage, and a tall four-light perpendicular style west window with cusped ogee heads to the panels and a sexfoil light above. A doorway in the west face has a four-centred head and carved leaf spandrels. A projecting polygonal stairtower is located to the north-east, topped with a spirelet. The nave has a clerestory with three-light 19th-century perpendicular style windows featuring cinquefoil heads and square hoodmoulds with relieving arches. Two- and single-light cinquefoil headed windows illuminate the clerestory. A rainwater head at the south-west is dated 1783. The square south porch, with a parapet and datestone of 1793, has a restored ogee and hollow moulded door surround.
The chancel has two-light mullion and transom late perpendicular style windows (all 19th or 20th century) and a three-light curvilinear style east window. Datestones from 1735 and 1905 are visible. A decorative stone, likely from a Roman altar in Bath, is incorporated into a north-east buttress, featuring two niches with figures, said to represent Hercules and Apollo. This stone was replaced with a facsimile in approximately 2000 and is now located at the Roman Baths Museum in Bath.
Inside, the tower arch is tall, with two wave mouldings. The north arcade has two bays with piers of alternating hollows and shafts, with strip capitals and abaci. Double-chamfered arches are present. A pulpit and font dating from 1883 are also inside. A monument to Brand, who died in 1731, features an inscribed plaque within an enriched border decorated with cherubs, skulls, and vegetation.
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