Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9596 OXFORD STREET, Bilston 895-1/15/23 (North side) 03/02/77 Church of St Mary

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Church. 1827-9. By Francis Goodwin. Ashlar with parapeted roof. Early English style. 6-bay single-vessel nave and chancel; east apse and west tower. Windows have cusped iron Y-tracery in splayed reveals between offset buttresses, but narrow west bays have blind lancets with ogee hood; top cornice and high parapet; east canted apse has tall windows and entrance with 4-centred head and paired doors; flanking blind lancets and diagonal buttresses; canted west angles have 2-light windows over entrances with 4-centred heads; west end has tower with flanking blind windows; diagonal buttresses and pointed entrance with head stops to hood below 2-light window; gabled roundel, possibly for clock face; octagonal bell stage has truncated pinnacles with flying buttresses to angles; louvred lancets, parapet and 8 crocketed pinnacles. INTERIOR has 3 galleries on iron columns. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.70).

Listing NGR: SO9548296232

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)