British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

THORMANBY CHURCH LANE
SE 47 SE
(north side)
4/77
Church of St Mary the
17.5.60 Virgin
- II

Church. C12, c.1200, C13, C15, C18, 1822 and c1900. Sandstone in deep courses,
Welsh slate roofs, brick tower. 2-storey brick tower of 1822; 3-bay nave of C12
with blocked c1200 north arcade and C18 south porch; 2-bay C12 chancel with C13
east wall, C15 priest's door and c.1900 north vestry. Tower: segmental-arched
louvred belfry openings; ground-floor segmental-arched window to south and
2-light segmental-arched west window at gallery level. Nave: porch has Tudor-
arched doorway, slit vents to sides, and inside stone seats, a brick floor and
straight-headed door; to right of porch a 2-light mullion window; coped gables;
on the north side the blocked 2-bay arcade has a circular column with moulded
capital and square abacus, chamfered round western arch and chamfered pointed
eastern arch, the former with chamfered doorway the latter with a small lancet
window with old lead cames and old glass chancel has: blocked pointed-arched
priest's doorway flanked by renewed windows, a round-arched single light to
left, and mullion window of 3 uneven lights to right; ashlar coping to right;
east window of 2 cinque-cusped lights with quatrefoil above; roughcast lean-to
vestry with 3-light mullion window. Interior: segmental tower arch; c.1900
continuously-moulded chancel arch; C17 chancel roof with curved ribs to princi-
pals rising from Jacobean inverted finials; old tie-beams in nave; stoup on
inner jamb of south door; in blocked western arch of north arcade a medieval
grave cover with floreate cross on stepped base and sword; nearby the C14 font
with octagonal bowl moulded around the top, on narrower octagonal stem; Kempe
glass of 1900 in east window; medieval glass given by Francis Plummer in 1952 in
south-eastern chancel window, above pulpit, C17 tester with Gothic cresting;
altar rail has twisted balusters and 2 spiked finials; in vestry, old reading
desk made up out of early panelling and more altar rails; on north wall of
chancel a royal coat of arms of James I, the name erased from inscription
below. VCH ii, pp.208-209.


Listing NGR: SE4958874965

Source: English Heritage

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