Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 ST MARY'S STREET
758-1/2/315 (North East side)
01/07/76 St Mary's Hall

GV II

Church, now hall. Rebuilt 1670-80, extended and altered
1830-45. Coursed limestone rubble with slate roof.
PLAN: rectangular rear hall with front range of chambers.
EXTERIOR: single-storey; 4-window range. 2 parallel ranges
with coped gabled ends and quoins, the S range C19 with a thin
cornice and openwork parapet of cusped triangles. 3- and
4-light windows each with elliptical heads and label moulds,
with a central 4-centre arched doorway. 1-window gables except
the left-hand rear which has a relieving arch of a former
window and a mid C19 ashlar gabled bellcote. Reported as
having a gabled porch.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. The earliest inscription
dates to c1672.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly St Mary's Church, Westport, on the
site of the fine Medieval church destroyed c1643 in the Civil
War by Sir William Waller 'that the enemy might not shelter
themselves against the garrison of Malmesbury.'
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Wiltshire: London:
1963-: 327).

Listing NGR: ST9307287470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559380

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)