Latitude: 52.3796 / 52°22'46"N
Longitude: -3.1176 / 3°7'3"W
OS Eastings: 324023
OS Northings: 276312
OS Grid: SO240763
Mapcode National: GBR B1.R93B
Mapcode Global: VH68Z.XG65
Plus Code: 9C4R9VHJ+RX
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 21 March 1968
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1176366
English Heritage Legacy ID: 257312
ID on this website: 101176366
Location: St Mary's Church, Llanfair Waterdine, Shropshire, LD7
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Llanfair Waterdine
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Llanfair Waterdine
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Church building
LLANFAIR WATERDINE C.P.
SO 27 NW
8/219
LLANFAIR WATERDINE
Church of St Mary
21.3.68
GV
II
Parish church. 1854 on earlier site, by T. Nicholson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Four bay nave, three bay north aisle, integral north-west tower, south porch, two bay chancel, and north vestry; C14 Gothic style. Plinth; buttresses, diagonal at corners; verge parapets.
Tower: Two stages; string course to battlemented octagonal top stage with ogee-headed bell chamber openings.
Nave: windows with two trefoil-headed lights and returned hoodmoulds; moulded arched doorway in second bay from left with boarded door; gabled porch with chamfered arch, boarded doors, inscribed: "DOMINUS CUSTODET INTROITUM TUUM" above, and side benches within; west window with two trefoil-headed lights and Y-tracery.
North aisle: paired ogee-headed lights.
Chancel: ogee-headed lancets with returned hoodmoulds; east window with three trefoiled ogee-headed lights, trefoiled tracery, and returned hoodmould.
Interior: single framed roofs with braced collars and crested wall plates; four bay north aisle arcade with octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals, and double chamfered arches; double chamfered chancel arch, dying into responds; C19 octagonal stone font with wooden cover; communion rails made up from parts of late mediaeval screen carved with foliage including vines and grapes, figures, lions, dragons, and inscription; pews with the names of farms in the parish painted on; circa 1620 communion table.
The former spire was demolished in 1975.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 November 2016.
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