Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1955. Farmhouse.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Mary features a nave, chancel, and south porch, constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The nave has a roof made of small slates, while the chancel is covered with stone tiles. The south porch is made of ashlar and has a gabled design with moulded kneelers, coping, and an apex cross, along with swept eaves. The chamfered arched doorway has an inscription to the left reading "RI 1790" with "CW" above it. Inside, there are stone benches and headstones set into the wall, along with a renewed roof. The main south doorway of the nave is a Norman round arch with a replaced wooden door that may include earlier metal fittings.
The south side of the nave features an ashlar gabled single bellcote with an apex cross, and there are three and two-light 19th-century trefoil-headed windows, along with a buttress with offsets to the east. The chancel has ashlar coping, a decorative apex cross, and moulded kneelers. It includes a two-light trefoil-headed south window with moulded stops, a pointed chamfered south doorway, and a three-cusped light east window under a rectangular hood mould that has been substantially renewed. The north side of the nave has 19th-century windows similar to those on the south. The west nave features a late medieval window with two trefoil-headed lights separated by a diamond mullion under a relieving arch. There is also an arched doorway with multiple shallow mouldings beneath a heavy hoodmould that has weathered face stops and blind tracery panelled reveals, along with a wooden door that may incorporate earlier metal fittings and a shallow corner buttress.
The churchyard contains the remains of a churchyard cross, which has a roughly 4-meter square grass-covered stone base, a plinth stone broached into an octagon, and a vestigial octagonal shaft approximately 1 meter high with tracery moulding. There is a table tomb for the Musgrove family with four inscription panels dated 1787, 1800, 1802, and possibly 1819, featuring a moulded slab and plinth with urns in the corners on a rectangular base. A stone stile is located to the northwest.
The church has been heavily restored. The chancel arch, dating from the 13th century, is pointed and consists of three orders, with the inner order featuring roll moulding and unusually low springing, supported by slender engaged columns with capitals. The font, from the 12th century, is rectangular and sits on two steps, with base mouldings and a rounded stem supported by engaged piers. The bell, reported to be from the 14th century, was rehung in 1920 and bears the inscription "Virgini Marie Laudes."
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