Description

SU 64 SW PRESTON CANDOVER & NUTLEY ALRESFORD ROAD
19/29
Church of St Mary
the Virgin

II

1884-5, by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Early English style, with chancel, nave, narthex,
north transept (vestry) north aisle and a north-west tower. Steeply-pitched red tile
roof. Flint walling with stone dressings and brick banding; buttresses, hood-moulds,
flush and projecting bands, plinth. The smallest windows in the northex are 4-cusped
lights in square stone frames. Most windows are lancets but there are larger windows
(of 2-lights in the transept, 3 to east window and 4 to west window) with traceried
lights. The tower, of 3 stages, has a slender broach spire, stone bands corner
buttresses with stone set-offs and brick quoins. The interior walling is in red
brickwork, with sparse stone dressings, the pointed arcade resting on cylindrical
columns, with square moulded caps and bases. The exposed timber roof has arch-braced
trusses, resting on stone corbels, the chancel being ceiled with painted panels.

Listing NGR: SU6059741587

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460422

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)