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Latitude: 52.1196 / 52°7'10"N
Longitude: -0.6358 / 0°38'8"W
OS Eastings: 493500
OS Northings: 247688
OS Grid: SP935476
Mapcode National: GBR F0T.22N
Mapcode Global: VHFQ4.XZRH
Plus Code: 9C4X4997+RM
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 17 November 1966
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1289532
English Heritage Legacy ID: 396953
ID on this website: 101289532
Location: St Mary's Church, Hardmead, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK16
County: Milton Keynes
Civil Parish: Hardmead
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Sherington with Chicheley, North Crawley, Astwood and Hardmead
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Church building
SP 94 NW HARDMEAD HARDMEAD ROAD
North side
3/40 Church of St.Mary
17.11.66
I
Parish church, made redundant. C13-C15, restored C19. Stone.
W. tower, nave with clerestory and aisles, S. porch and chancel.
Flat lead roof to nave and aisles, tiles to chancel with stone coped
E. gable. Unbuttressed C13 tower with traceried belfry windows,
battlemented parapet. Plain parapets to aisles, battlemented to nave,
C14 and C15 traceried windows. C15 S. porch, chancel has E. window and
2 windows each side with C14 Decorated tracery. Interior nave of
2 bays with C14 quatrefoil piers, capitals of S. arcade of earlier
date than N. Wide C14 tower arch, old roof. timbers in aisles.
Fittings Font C15 carved with tracery. Organ early C19 gothic style.
Bench ends C15. Monuments In N. aisle wall monument to Francis Catesby
1636 small reaumbent effigy above an inscription panel and 3 small
kneeling figures on the wall behind, framed by Corinthian columns
supporting entablatures broken forward over columns and semi-circular
broken pediment with coat of arms in tympanum with scroll finial. The
monument stands as a deep moulding broken forward under columns and
supported on console brackets. Brass to Francis Catesby 1556 and at
W. end of N. aisle wall tablet with oval panel nesting on a console
bracket with floral swags at top and central cartouche of arms.
Chancel: C19 white memorial tablets to members of Shedden family including
one with gothic columns and cusped top commemorating Robert Shedden
who died 1849 on his yacht Nancy Dawson after his unsuccessful search for
Sir John Franklin. Relief carving of the yacht below the tablet.
RCHM II p 139 MON 1
Listing NGR: SP9349947687
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