Church of Saint Mary Warwick, England
Listed Building Data
Church of Saint Mary has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1035500
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 10 January 1953
- Name
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY INCLUDING BEAUCHAMP CHAPEL
- Location
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY INCLUDING BEAUCHAMP CHAPEL
- Parish
- Warwick
- District
- Warwick
- County
- Warwickshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 28199 64982
- Easting
- 428199.1250
- Northing
- 264982.3585
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
811/1/298 CHURCH OF SAINT MARY INCLUDING BEAUCHA 10-JAN-53 MP CHAPEL
I
Tower can be seen for many miles and is of high value in association with Northgate Street, also with Church Street, The Court House and adjoining buildings. Nave, transepts and tower rebuilt by Sir William Wilson in 1697-1704 after destruction in the great fire of 1694. Design supervised and perhaps modified by Sir Christopher Wren (see Wren Society's Transactions, Vol X). This curious and interesting building retains much of the Gothic spirit although details and mouldings are Renaissance in character. Late C14 chancel. Norman crypt. Interior contains C18 organ case by Swarbrick and various effigies. The Beauchamp Chapel (Lady Chapel to south of Chancel) is a very fine example of the Perpendicular style, built 1442-63 to contain the wellknown tomb and bronze effigy of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (died 1439). Further interesting features of the interior include, fan vaulting, richly carved stone figures etc at east end, wall painting (Last Judgement) at west end, C15 stained glass and other tombs of the Dudley family. VCH, viii, pp 524-9.
Listing NGR: SP2819964980
