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| HER Number: | 498 |
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| Name: | CHURCH OF ST MARY; OXFORD ST; BILSTON |
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Summary
Church, 1827-9. Architect: Francis Goodwin. Gothic style. Stone. Nave & aisles, polygonal apse. W tower with octagonal upper stage, spire. Interior has 3 galleries
Monument Type(s):
- CHURCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CEMETERY (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
| Local Authority: | Wolverhampton |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 9548 9623 |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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| Designation: | Listed Building (II*) 1201850: CHURCH OF ST MARY |
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Description
1827-9. Architect: Francis Goodwin. Gothic style. Stone. Nave & aisles, polygonal apse. W tower with octagonal upper stage, spire. Interior has 3 galleries. <1>. generally in good condition - large tombs only survive of stones set flat in paths. {5} 4 trernches & soakaway holes dug in churchyard as part of redevelopment. All finds modern, no human remains. Poss top of brick burial vault in trench 3. {8}
Church. 1827-9. By Francis Goodwin. Ashlar with parapetted 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; louvered lancets, parapet and 8 crocketed pinnacles.
INTERIOR: has 3 galleries on iron columns.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.70). (9)
Bell is by Thomas Mears II, 1830. (10)
Sources and Further Reading
| [1] | SBL5691 - DoE Statutory List: DoE. 1977. |
| [2] | SBL3666 - DoE Statutory List: DoE. 1992. 895 - 1.15.23-25. |
| [3] | SBL5243 - Bibliographic reference: Pevsner Nikolaus. 1974. Buildings of England: Staffordshire. 70. |
| [4] | SBL4869 - Bibliographic reference: Collins, P. 1991. Survey of Surviving Industrial Buildings in Bilston. |
| [5] | SBL5400 - Bibliographic reference: White H. 1995. SMR Card. SMR. |
| [6] | SBL3667 - Bibliographic reference: Rowley J. 1977. Parson Owen of Bilston. Blackcountryman. 10;2;26. |
| [7] | SBL3668 - Bibliographic reference: 150th anniversary. Blackcountryman. 13.3.32-. |
| [8] | SBL3669 - Bibliographic reference: Williams J. 1998. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bilston. BUFAU. https://doi.org/10.5284/1032402. |
| [9] | SBL7403 - DCMS: statutory list: Wolverhampton City Council. 2010. Listed Buildings: A Brief Guide. |
| [10] | SBL7723 - Website: Dawson, George - http://georgedawson.homestead.com/index.html. 2013. A National Bell Register. |
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