Description

SU 75 SW GREYWELL

8/73 Church of St Mary The
Virgin
24.11.61

- II *

C12, C13, C15, 1870. A small aisleless nave and western tower of Norman date,
and a chancel restored (rebuilt) 1870. Red tile roof, lower over chancel. Walls
are stone quoins, cement plinth, the chancel being of flint with stone dressings,
a rood stair (c1500) projects on the north side as a semicircular turret with
chequered walling of white stone and flint. Early English, Perpendicular and
Victorian Decorated windows. Norman north doorway has dogtooth ornament, and
a blocked south doorway. The tower has massive brick corner buttresses and some
brick walling (late Cl7); the bell chamber and pyramid roof being clad in
shingles. Inside there is a fine rood screen (c1500) on a later stone-walled
base, a good octagonal C15 font, and Royal Coat of Arms of 1768. The north porch
is Victorian, with a tiled gabled roof, a timber frame, with stone base.

Listing NGR: SU7153751279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534205

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)