Church Of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. A Medieval Parish church.

Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1954
Type
Parish church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

7420 13/18 16.3.54

BURITON NORTH LANE Church of St Mary

II*

Parish church. C12 nave of four bays with aisles (rebuilt c1300 (south) and 1764 (north)), C13 chancel and vestry, west tower of 1715, south porch of 1860, and minor later additions. Walls of flint, some malmstone, ironstone to the tower, stone dressings; Victorian Gothic windows, mostly small coupled cusped lancets, but tracery in the chancel, small buttresses. Tile roof, extending to a low eaves above the aisles. Slender plain tower, with battlements and tall narrow openings. Interior: nave arcade of plain recessed arches, on circular columns with square mouldings above scalloped capitals: the chancel has a piscina and sedilia (with cusps within the arches) and an aumbry. C12 Purbeck square font on five columns. There are several wall monuments in the chancel, some of the C18, and two small brass monuments of 1617 and 1698. The choir vestry (south of the tower) contains an altar tomb with iron rails (late C17 and early C18) to the Bilson family. The open framed wood chancel arch is unusual.

Listing NGR: SU7401520016

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