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 SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
List entry Number: 1321686
Location
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Central Bedfordshire | Unitary Authority | Potsgrove |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 22-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 23-Feb-1961
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 38173
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
SP92NE POTSGROVE
4/71
23.2.61 Church of Saint Mary the
Virgin
GV II*
Former Parish Church, now redundant. C14, heavily reworked by JD.Sedding
1880-81. Course rubble, mostly ironstone with some clunch. Ashlar dressings.
Clay tile roofs. Chancel and nave with NW bell-turret. Chancel has 5-light
depressed 2-centred-arched E window with panel tracery. N and S elevations
each have 2 2-light pointed-arched windows with variety of tracery. Nave has
3 windows to S elevation, 2 to N elevation, all of 2-lights, pointed-arched,
and with variety of tracery. Pointed-arched N doorway with carved heads of
man and woman to dripstone stops. Pointed-arched S doorway, under gabled
porch with pointed archway, again with carved heads to stops. Nave W
elevation has 2-light pointed window surmounted by ogival-headed niche
containing statue of Virgin and child. Octagonal ashlar bell-turret with
stone spire rises from NW corner of nave roof. 2 tiers of openings to each
side of turret, lower ones rectangular, upper ones with trefoiled heads.
Spire has lucarnes to alternate sides and has cross finial. Interior: very
plain, but retains C15 roof to nave. W nave window completely made up of
fragments of medieval glass.
Listing NGR: SP9515529851
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National Grid Reference: SP 95155 29851
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