Description

ULLENHALL

SP16NW CHURCH HILL
652-1/5/223 (South side)
02/08/72 Church of St Mary the Virgin

GV II

Church. 1875 by JP Seddon.
MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs and coped
stone gables, ornamental ridge tiles.
STYLE: Early English.
PLAN: 3-bay nave with aisles, north porch, south-west tower in
3 stages, single-bay transepts, apsidal chancel.
EXTERIOR: angle buttresses to nave, straight buttresses to
porch, with off-sets. Chamfered plinth; continuous sill band.
Porch has plank door in 4-centred pointed arch within
projecting surround with shallow gable and finials; above a
small rose window.
Nave: 7 cusped lancets to south and 6 to north. West end has
4-light window with bar tracery to head. Aisles have cusped
lancets to west ends.
Tower: has lancet windows, broached octagonal bellstage and
slender spire.
Transepts: 3-light window to north with bar tracery to head,
group of 4 cinquefoil lights to south, otherwise transepts
have cusped lights. Apse has 7 cusped lancets with slender
colonnettes on band to each angle, with horizontal
crescent-shaped band beneath and ornate frieze.
INTERIOR: double-chamfered arcades have outer clusters of 3
columns, with single column to centre, all with roll-moulding
to head and water-holding bases. Similar double-chamfered
arches to transepts.
Aisle windows have arcade of slender shafts with roll-moulded
capitals and water-holding bases; similar full-height arcade
to chancel.
Stencilled wagon roofs to nave and chancel, half-wagons in the
aisles.
Octagonal font with trefoiled panels with fishes in net motif.
Forms a group with gates, piers and railings to Churchyard
(qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 437).

Listing NGR: SP1206667222

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662536

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)