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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: CHURCH OF ST MARY

List entry Number: 1129940

Location

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority	Tilston

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 01-Mar-1967

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 55187

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

SJ 45 SE TILSTON CHURCH ROAD (East side)

1/46 Church of St Mary 1.3.67 II*

Church, C16, on site of earlier church (Rectors since 1301), with probably earlier work in tower. 1659 Leche chapel. Major rebuild by J Douglas, 1877-79, including new chancel, vestry and nave roof. Red sandstone with steeply pitched tile roof. Nave, chancel, west tower, north doorway, chapel and vestry. 3 bay nave has deeply recessed 3- light mullion windows with Perpendicular hood moulds between stepped buttresses with splayed plinths. Perpendicular hood moulds to north and blocked south doorways. Sundial on south-west buttress. Embattled tower with stepped corner buttresses, low pitched early Tudor west doorway with hood mould. Blocked south doorway. Deeply recessed pointed window with reticulated tracery and bell openings. Canopied niche over west doorway. Figure stops to hood moulds, figure gargoyles. Interior: Beam inscribed "PW (ARBURTON) 1618 AW (ARBURTON)". Reused Elizabethan coffering in chancel. J Douglas scissor truss nave roof. Slat baluster altar rail and gate, gate dated 1677. Altar table (altered) dated 1677, and C18 early Georgian octagonal pulpit. Most glass is C19, some early medieval painted glass. (Pevsner and Hubbard, Richards).

Listing NGR: SJ4574350582

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National Grid Reference: SJ 45743 50582

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