Description

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SJ39NW PARK ROAD
778-1/3/112 (South side)
26/03/73 Church of St Mary the Virgin
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROAD
Church of St Mary)

II

Church. 1877-86, by WG Habershon; nave extended 1907. Coursed
rock-faced red sandstone with yellow sandstone dressings, blue
slate roofs with green slate bands.
STYLE: Gothic with some Early English features.
PLAN: cruciform plan with uncompleted crossing tower, north
and south aisles extended to link with early C20 narthex at
west end.
EXTERIOR: the tall 3-bay nave, with pilasters, has
segmental-pointed clerestory windows of 3 cusped lights, and
in the west gable (above the added narthex) a tall stepped
3-light west window with deep double-chamfered reveals. The
aisles, now of 5 bays, with sturdy buttresses which have 2
offsets, has windows of two 2-centred arched lights with
set-in shafts and hoodmoulds with foliated stops.
The narthex at the west end (dated 1907) has in its north side
a 2-centred arched double-chamfered doorway framed by
Perpendicular-style pilasters, and in the west front 2 similar
entrances. The transepts, which are almost as tall as the
nave, have angle buttresses and large stepped 3-light windows
in their gable walls, with slender shafts and 2 orders of
moulding. The chancel has one narrow lancet in the north side
(the south side covered by later additions), and a large
3-light east window like those of the transepts. The crossing
tower, rising only slightly above the nave and transepts, has
small lancets near the corners, and a stepped embattled
parapet in lighter masonry.
INTERIOR: painted brick walls; 3-bay arcades of quatrefoil
columns with shafts, 2-centred arches stepped rather than
chamfered; similar arch at west end, open to narthex; tall
double-chamfered crossing arches rising from clustered piers,
and pulpit integrated with the north-eastern pier; hammerbeam
roof trusses rising from large moulded and foliated corbels;
chancel with organ and piscina in north wall, sedilia in south
wall.

Listing NGR: SJ3251697971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548719

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock