Building record 0106300000 - ST MARY'S CHURCH, THORNBOROUGH

Dimensions - Width 16m, Length 32m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Grade II+. Parish church. Remnants of Cll-C12 herringbone stone work in S. wall of nave, C13 chancel and N. aisle. C15 W. tower and porch, all much restored C18 and C19. Rubble stone, slate roofs to nave and N. aisle. old tile roof to chancel. W. tower of three stages with angled buttresses, rendered battlemented parapet, moulded arch to W. door and traceried openings to bell chamber. S. wall of nave has parapet and three Perpendicular windows. N. wall has parapet and three circular cusped clerestory lights, originally C14. N. aisle has two Perpendicular windows and doorway and one 2-light Decorated window to west with carved head label stops. C19 vestry in angle with tower. S. wall of chancel has original 2-light window with ogee tracery and flat hood-mould with volute stops, similar tracery above door. N. wall has half-blocked traceried window. 3-light E. window has intersecting tracery. Interior: nave has N . arcade of four bays of double chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps, and C19 roof. C19 fittings. Brass to William Barton and wife 1389. C18 wall tablets and pyramid tablet to Charles Wodnoth 1778. RCHM II pp 294-6 (B7).
Repaired & restored 1860, architect Mr Street (B3).
Vicars 1237-1834 (B2).
NGR to church (B6).
Small scale recording carried out in ?March 2002 by Gary Marshall of the National Trust, following removal of a small area of plaster from the base of the south wall of the interior of the nave near the southwest corner. The original construction of the wall was uncoursed rubble limestone packed with smaller pieces of limestone and bonded with a lime mortar. A row of broken ?medieval floor tiles had been applied to the face of the wall, at a point where the wall thickens noticeably, possibly during the restoration of the church in the 1860s (B8).



Parish Church of St. Mary, stands in the middle of the village. The walls are of stone rubble, partly coated with thin cement and partly with roughcast; the aisle has a brick plinth; the dressings are of stone and many of the windows have been treated with a thin wash of cement. The roofs are covered with lead, except that of the chancel which is tiled. Of the church existing on the site early in the 12th Century the only remaining evidence is some herring-bone rubble work at the bottom of the south wall of the Nave. The north aisle was added c.1240, and the chancel was rebuilt towards the end of the 13th Century; the aisle was widened possibly in the 14th or 15th century. The windows of the clerestorey were inserted in the north wall of the nave in the 14th century; the West Tower was added early in the 15th century, and the south porch late in the same century. Windows were inserted in the chancel, nave and aisle during the 15th and 16th centuries; the tower arch was altered or recut in the 17th century, and the north wall of the aisle rebuilt in the 18th century. The church was restored in the 19th century, and the North-West Vestry is modern (B4).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.