Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY (1345725)
Grade | II |
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Authority | Historic England |
Volume/Map/Item | 444, 11, 74 |
Date assigned | 22 May 1969 |
Date last amended | |
Date revoked |
SS93NE LUXBOROUGH CP LUXBOROUGH VILLAGE
11/74 Church of St Mary
22.5.69
GV II
Parish church. C13 chancel, C15 altered and lower stages of tower erected, 1861 north aisle added, nave largely rebuilt and upper stages of tower added, 1890 south porch, 1969 and 1973-4 church restored. Roughcast with exposed flat bedded slate tower and porch, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. Four-bay nave, chancel, 4-bay north aisle, south porch, west tower. Three stage sadle-back tower aligned east-west, diagonal buttresses west end to second stage, 2-light louvred bell openings west end, string course, cross loop openings on returns, 2-light louvred bell openings below, 2-light window above pointed arch west door, C19 door; gabled south porch, chamfered pointed arch opening, C19 double doors, lit on returns, double inner door unmoulded, two 3-light windows to nave, large irregular buttresses at junction with chancel, lancets flanking priests door with stepped buttress to left, 3-light east window, 2 lancets north front of chancel, two 3-light windows to north front of chancel, two 3-light windows to north aisle. Interior: rendered tower exposed random rubble, chamfered chancel arch, pointed tower arch; C19 open wagon roofs. Four bay arcade of chamfered arches, outer bays springing from plain responds. C15 octagonal font. East window dedicated to Lt Lethbridge, died 1899. Mid-late C19 fittings. (Photograph in NMR; Pevsner, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: SS9737838021
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SS 97378 38020 (26m by 14m) |
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Map sheet | SS93NE |
Civil Parish | LUXBOROUGH, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET |