Church of St Mary the Virgin, Broughton

Heritage listing

Details BROUGHTON BANBURY ROAD SP43NW (West side) 1/233 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 08/12/55 GV 1 Church. c.1300. South aisle clerestory late C14. Nave clerestorey C15. Small-scale general restoration 1825. Sedilia and piscina restored by Giltert Scott 1858. Complete restoration 1877-1880 by Gilbert Scott and G.G. Scott. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Lead roofs. Chancel, nave, west tower, south aisle, south porch, north vestry. Chancel: Large 6-light curvilinear east window; south window has square head and 2 lights with quatrefoils and mouchettes; three 2-light north windows have trefoils, mouchettes and quatrefoils. Nave: pointed arched doorway to right flanked by 2-light windows with Y-tracery. A 3-light similar window to left. Four 2-light Perpendicular windows to clerestory. Some limestone tracery in windows. Tower: West door has wave and hollow mouldings with ballflower and ogee hood with finial; 3 stages; 2-light bell openings have Y-tracery; broach spire with lucarnes and crocketed gables. South aisle; West window of 3 lights with intersecting tracery, hood mould and head stops; 4-light geometrical east windows. Gabled, south porch to left; south doorway has pointed arch and 3 orders of hollow moulding, the outer 2 carried on shafts with bell capitals; plank door; to right of porch a 3-light window with intersecting tracery, a doorway with chamfered head and a 5-light window. Three 2-light Decorated windows to clerestorey have square heads. Chancel has stone coping to steep roof and angle buttresses. Nave has flat band and a continuous band below windows and moulded parapet; south aisle has parapet with Decorated canopied niches above east and west windows; parapet has finials, ballflower, heads and floral decoration; Tower has angle buttresses. Interior:

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.