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SU 97 NE SLOUGH CHURCH STREET (west side)

4/4 Church Of St. Mary (formerly
29.9.50 listed as Parish Church Of
St. Mary)

II*

Church. 1876-8 enlarged 1911-3, by J. Oldrid Scott in a Decorated Gothic
style. Red brick with stone dressings and lacing courses, some banded
flint and brick chequer-work, some diaper work, and string courses. Tile
roofs with parapeted gable ends and lead aisle roofs. 5 bay nave, aisles,
south-west porch, north-west tower, north and south transeptal chapels at
west end of nave, lower 2 bay chancel, and south vestry. Tower: 3 stages
with diagonal buttresses, gabled south-west newel turret rising to second
stage, battlemented parapet, and panelled corner pinnacles with flying
buttresses to stone spire with lucarnes on cardinal faces. 2-light louvred
bell stage openings with Y-tracery in recessed moulded arches with hoodmoulds
and carved stops. Clocks beneath to north, east and west. Paired cusped
lancets in second stage to east and west with 4 blank arches below; first
stage window to north with Y-tracery, hoodmould, and carved stops; western
entrance with 2 boarded doors and surround with flower ornament;
recessed in moulded archway with shafts, cusping, and virgin and child
in quatrefoil at apex of projecting gabled surround. Nave: clerestory:
paired round arches with alternating traceried circular windows and gabled
buttresses. West-front: tall central 2-light window with hoodmould and
finial, 2 low flanking buttresses, 2 lower flanking lancets with hoodmoulds,
and small rectangular opening in gable end. Aisles: paired 2-light windows
with hoodmoulds and carved stops. South-west porch: square plan with angle
buttresses, parapet, and pyramidal lead roof with finial. 2 boarded doors
to west with chamfered arch, hoodmould with carved stops, and lancet to
left. Paired lancets to south. Transeptal chapels: large 4-light moulded
windows to north and south with central shafts and geometrical tracery, and
lean-to porches to west with arched west doorways. Chancel: angle buttresses,
2 moulded lancets to north and south; 5-light east window with moulded arch,
shafting, slightly taller central light and geometrical tracery; carved
frieze at eaves level, and 5 stepped ogee arches in apex of gable, outer
pairs blank and central glazed. Vestry: Three 2-light windows.
to south and boarded door between first and second from east. 3-light
east window under segmental head. Interior: 5 bay aisle arcades with
circular piers, foliated capitals, trefoiled circles in spandrels, and
shafting to roof. Internal window shafting and double arches at west end
of aisles. Moulded chancel arch with foliated capitals, and 2 arches to
north and south in chancel with quatrefoils in spandrels. Triple arched
chancel screen with shafts, foliated capitals, pierced spandrels and stepped
parapet. Fittings include; tiled sanctuary triptych, wrought iron altar rail,
arcaded octagonal marble pulpit and marble font with 4 shafts around central
larger shaft. Glass in west windows of 1915 by Alfred A. Wolmark consisting
of an entirely abstract arrangement of geometrical shapes, important as
pioneer works as they were unmatched for at least 40 years. Other glass
by Kempe. Outside stone plaque in east wall of Chancel inscribed: In Dei
Gloriam MDCCCLXXVI, Outside stone plaque in north wall of tower inscribed:
In Dei Gloriam MCMXII. V.C.H. (Bucks), Vol.3, p.302; B.O.E.(Bucks), p.236;
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973, PP.142-3.


Listing NGR: SU9763479581

Source: English Heritage

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