St Mary & St Lawrence's Church, Stratford Tony

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church
Location Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates 51°02′13″N 1°52′14″W / 51.03694°N 1.87056°WCoordinates: 51°02′13″N 1°52′14″W / 51.03694°N 1.87056°W
Built 13th century
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence
Designated 23 March 1960[1]
Reference no. 1181901
Location of St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Wiltshire

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 1 October 1984, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1986.[3]

The stone and flint church is on the banks of the River Ebble and accessed down a narrow lane, then across a stream and up a steep bank on foot.[2] The chancel dates from the 14th, and the tower from the 15th, while the nave was rebuilt in the 18th century.[1]

The interior of the church includes a 14th-century font and box pews with colonnaded tops. The stained glass in the east window was installed by the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1884.[2]

There is a large Yew tree in the churchyard with a girth of over 11 feet (3.4 m).[4]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Historic England, "Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence, Stratford Tony (1181901)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 June 2014
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Church of St Mary & St Lawrence, Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 1 April 2011
  3. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 10, retrieved 1 April 2011
  4. ↑ Norton, Peter. "Wiltshire Yews An Inventory of Churchyard Yews Along the Ebble Valley" (PDF). Retrieved 14 October 2010.