Building record 0201600000 - ST MARY'S CHURCH, WENDOVER

Dimensions - Length 40m, Width 15m.
Grade II* Parish church. C14 restored 1839 and in 1869 by Street. Flint rubble with random blocks of stone, ashlar stone dressings - older work in church, restoration in limestone. Tiled roofs except for lead on nave aisles. Nave, aisles, chancel with C19 vestry on N., chapel on S.; embattled west tower with small "spike"; traceried belfry windows, small lancet with shafts to mid-stage of N. side; stair turret on S. side and heavy buttresses. Traceried windows, many restored. C19 south porch, containing C14 door- way with ball flower ornament. Oak north porch. Interior C14 tower arch, later C14 nave of 5 bays, tall columns with leaf carving on capitals. C19 fittings including circular marble pulpit probably by Street (B7).


The Parish Church of St Mary is built of flint with stone dressings. The roofs are tiled, except those of the aisles and tower, which are
covered with lead. Of the building which existed in the C13th, only the capitals and bases of the West columns, and the responds of the nave arcade remain. The church was entirely rebuilt in the first half of the C14th and then consisted of a chancel, nave with North and South aisles, the West tower, and, apparently, a North vestry. The chancel was repaired in 1839, and the whole church was restored in 1869 by GE Street, when the North chapel, vestry and organ-chamber were built, the South chapel, North and South porches were added, and the chancel arcades, North doorway of the North aisle and the West buttresses of the tower were renewed. Grade II* (B2 and B7).

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