Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, CHARBOROUGH (108403)

SY 99 NW MORDEN CHARBOROUGH PARK 3/125 Parish Church of Saint Mary, 20/11/59 Charborough GV II * Formerly listed as "Chapel of St Mary, Charborough House". Parish Church. Rebuilt 1775. - replacing a medieval church and remodelled 1837. Plastered walls, with stone dressings, slate roof, with battlemented parapet. Small bell turret with spirelet at west end. Simple rectangular plan - no structural chancel. In early Gothic Revival style. Single pinnacles at angles, and over east gable. Classical cornice and pilasters. Side walls have 2-light windows with simple tracery. East and west windows of 3 lights, with Perpendicular style tracery. At west end, an open porch with slender column s supporting depressed 4-centred arches carrying battlemented flat roof. Internally, a pitched timber roof with moulded panelled ceiling with painted Coats of Arms at intersections. Several C18 and early C19 wall monuments including one by Sir Richard Westmacott. A considerable amount of imported C17 carved wood- work - mostly Flemish, installed in 1823, (commemorative tablet on west wall). This includes 2 carved brackets in nave, candelabrum in nave, communion rails, altar table with reredos, stalls on south wall of sanctuary, surmounted by another reredos , reading desk, 2-decker pulpit. Early C19 painted glass in east window. Graded II* for furnishings. RCHM Monument 2. Listing NGR: SY9251597852

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