Church of Saint Mary, Stoneleigh

Heritage listing

Details STONELEIGH Church Lane (south side) 20/298 Church of Saint Mary 11.4.67 GV I Parish Church. Circa late Cl2 chancel, nave and west tower; partly rebuilt in mid Cl4 when south aisle added; vestry added 1665; north chapel early C19 (by C S Smith of Warwick). Built of red sandstone ashlar except south aisle which is in a lighter coloured sandstone ashlar. The bases of chancel walls for height of 10 ft are of late C12 date. Above this height it is of mid C14 date, and reduced in thickness by splayed offsets. In east gable is a window of 3 trefoil lights and tracery, with pointed arch and label with head stops. In the apex is a small blocked quatrefoil light enclosed in a circle. In south wall is a 2-light window of two splayed orders with a flat head. Veatry built in 1665 by Lord Leigh as burial vault for his family and a vestry. Splayed plinth, moulded string course, very high parapet wall with pinnacles. In east wall is a combined door and tracery window with a four-centred arch and hood mould. On south side is a traceried window of three trefoil lights with a pointed arch and hood mould. North chapel built early in C19 as a mausoleum for the Leigh family, but now in use as a chapel. harmonises with the chancel. It is lighted on north by a three-light tracery window, and on east and west by a single tracery window of three ogee lights. Modern oak door on east side. North wall of nave almost entirely rebuilt in mid C14. There are two clerestory windows, each of two-trefoil lights with square heads. Below are three tracery windows equally spaced, the one on east is of mid C14 date, but the other two are late copies of it. They each have three-trefoil lights with moulded jambs and mullions, pointed arches and hood moulds. Between the later two windows is a blocked lat

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.