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Church of Saint Mary the Virgin

A Grade II* Listed Building in Haynes, Central Bedfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0586 / 52°3'30"N

Longitude: -0.4246 / 0°25'28"W

OS Eastings: 508109

OS Northings: 241190

OS Grid: TL081411

Mapcode National: GBR G30.TQN

Mapcode Global: VHFQN.LJD8

Plus Code: 9C4X3H5G+C5

Entry Name: Church of Saint Mary the Virgin

Listing Date: 23 January 1961

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1311867

English Heritage Legacy ID: 37627

ID on this website: 101311867

Location: St Mary's Church, Haynes Church End, Central Bedfordshire, MK45

County: Central Bedfordshire

Civil Parish: Haynes

Traditional County: Bedfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire

Church of England Parish: Haynes

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


TL 04SE HAYNES CHURCH END
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23.1.61 Church of Saint Mary the
Virgin

GV II*

Parish church. C14 and C15, with extensive rebuilding 1850 by Henry Woodyer
for the Rev. Lord John Thynne. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Slate roofs with stone coped gables. Chancel, N vestry, N chapel,
nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Most windows reworked C19, with
pointed heads. Chancel:3-light E window, 2-light SW window. N vestry:
doorway to N elevation, single lights. N (Thynne) chapel: oeil-de-boeuf to E,
2 single lights to N, gabled roof. Nave: 4-bay pointed arched arcades, S one
C14, N one C19, Aisles: mainly 2-light windows, pointed arched doorway to N.
Gabled SE bay has rose window serving Carteret chapel. S porch: gabled, with
pointed doorway. W tower: C15. 3 stages, with octagonal stair turret to SW
angle. 2-light pointed windows to all sides of bell-stage and w elevation
lower stage. Pointed W doorway. Embattled parapet. Angle buttresses.
Interior: Chancel: decorative ribs and polychrome stencil patterning to roof
and walls. Brass to Anthony Newdigate, d.1568. Thynne chapel: alabaster
effigy of Lady Thynne, 1868 by H. H. Armstead. Canopy, floor and ironwork by
Sir George Gilbert Scott. E window by O'Connor. Polychrome stencil decration
and angel corbels to roof, by Clayton and Bell. Carteret chapel: monuments to
First Lord Carteret, d.1826 (marble portrait head in oval surround, by
Westmacott) and to 2nd. Lord Carteret, d.1838. Rose window with 6-cornered
star by Woodyer.


Listing NGR: TL0810941190

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