Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9596 OXFORD STREET, Bilston
895-1/15/23 (North side)
03/02/77 Church of St Mary

II*

Church. 1827-9. By Francis Goodwin. Ashlar with parapeted
roof. Early English style. 6-bay single-vessel nave and
chancel; east apse and west tower. Windows have cusped iron
Y-tracery in splayed reveals between offset buttresses, but
narrow west bays have blind lancets with ogee hood; top
cornice and high parapet; east canted apse has tall windows
and entrance with 4-centred head and paired doors; flanking
blind lancets and diagonal buttresses; canted west angles have
2-light windows over entrances with 4-centred heads; west end
has tower with flanking blind windows; diagonal buttresses and
pointed entrance with head stops to hood below 2-light window;
gabled roundel, possibly for clock face; octagonal bell stage
has truncated pinnacles with flying buttresses to angles;
louvred lancets, parapet and 8 crocketed pinnacles.
INTERIOR has 3 galleries on iron columns.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.70).

Listing NGR: SO9548296232

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555342

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)