Church Of St Mary

SP 6423 MARSH GIBBON CHURCH STREET (north-west side)

8/38 Cnurch of St. Mary

13.7.66

GV II*

Parish Church. C13 cruciform plan. S. aisle added c1300, S. porch C15. N. aisle and vestry added, W. tower rebuilt and remainder restored 1879-80. Rubble stone. Lead roofs to nave, aisles and transepts; tiled chancel. W. tower of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, pinnacles and Perpendicular openings. Doorway and 3-light window to W. Nave of 2 bays has C16 2-light windows to clerestory, and parapet. S. aisle has 2-light window with ogee tracery and flat hoodmould to left, and C16 3-light window to right. S. porch has moulded 4-centred arch and parapet. C19 N. aisle has 3-light windows similar to clerestory. N. transept has 2 lancets with continuous drip mould to N. and 3-light Perpendicular window with carved head stops to E. S. transept has 5-light Perpendicular window to S. Chancel has C19 lancets with continuous hood and sill moulds, 3 to each wall with taller central light to E. Interior: nave has double chamfered C13 arches to transepts withcarved foliage and heads to caps. Similar arcade with moulded caps to S. aisle imitated C19 to N. aisle. C15-C16 roofs to nave and transepts with moulded beams on restored carved angel corbels. N. transept has 2 piscinae in E. wall, S. transept has piscina with segmental arch and C15-C16 library recess with wooden frame. Chancel has segmental arched tomb recess. Fittings: C17 pews. Other fittings C19 including carved stone rerdos of The Last Supper. Monuments: wall tablets to Abigail and Richard Barker 1712 and John Dodd 1698 in N. transept, and to John Townsend 1714 in S. transept.

RCHM II pp 188-189

Listing NGR: SP6476123228