Description

SU 77 NE
2/42

TWYFORD
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Church of St Mary

26.1.67

GV
II

Church. 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey in an Early English style, north aisle added 1883, tower added 1908-10 by S. Stallwood. Flint with Bath stone dressings, buttressed walls, plate tracery windows. Coped gables to tiled roof. Five bay nave, north and south aisles square tower on north west, gabled entrance porch on south opposite middle bay.

Tower in three stages, stone string courses, cornice and plain parapet, small pyramidal tiled roof. Three-light windows in top stage on all sides, coupled with stone mullions and heavily moulded pointed heads; other windows plain narrow slits. Small stone bellcote at east end of nave, central on ridge. Plain interior with arcades of alternate octagonal and round columns with moulded capitals, and round arches. Simple arch braced roof with king posts and curved windbraces to purlins. Stained glass in two lancets in south aisle by Willement 1847.

Listing NGR: SU7885375887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605214

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair