page_title: St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury
section_title: Exterior
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury / Exterior
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomb of Thomas Bowater Vernon, of Hanbury Hall, outside the Vernon Chapel of St Mary the Virgin parish church, Hanbury, Worcestershire, England
context_page_description: The church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican parish church in the village of Hanbury, Worcestershire. Its earliest parts date from about 1210 and it is a Grade I listed building. The church was the family church for the Vernon family of nearby Hanbury Hall.
context_section_description: The church, in the Early English and Georgian styles, is of part-dressed, coursed sandstone rubble and part sandstone ashlar, with slate and plain tiled roofs with parapets at the gable ends.
  There is a tower at the west, which was rebuilt in 1793, with three stages, three strings and a chamfered plinth. It has diagonal corner buttresses and pointed-arched cusped panels. The lowest stage of the tower serves as a porch and west entrance. It has a heavily moulded ogee-arched and tall finialed surround. There is a large oculus in the side elevation and north pointed doorway. The second stage of the tower has pointed Y-traceried windows with sill string and an oculus above. The belfry stage has similar windows with louvred openings and above is a panelled frieze and embattled parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles which was restored in the mid-20th century.
  The nave is from the 13th century and the north aisle from the 14th century. Both aisles were rebuilt in the late 18th century. The north aisle has a separate roof, diagonal corner buttresses and four large raking buttresses. One of the buttresses is marked with an old mass dial. There are two windows with pointed arches, incorporating some 14th-century stonework, but without tracery. The eastern-most arch is blocked and there are two square-headed windows. The west end elevation has a blocked pointed doorway.
  The south aisle has a single pitch roof, diagonal corner buttresses and also buttresses at the bay divisions. There is a blocked doorway and window to the west and a pointed window, without tracery, in the second bay from the east. The west end elevation has a pointed window reconstructed from 13th century masonry, with a hood mould. In the nave roof there are two flat-roofed dormers.
  The chancel, dated from about 1860, is by G. E. Street. There are three bays with buttresses at the gable ends and a three-light east window has a hood mould with foliated stops and continuous sill string. Pointed windows, without tracery, are located at the north-east and south-east ends. The north transept gable end has four cusped lancets beneath a rose window. The vestry projects from its east side elevation and has three cusped lancets, a door facing north and a rose window in its east gable end. The south transept has a parallel east wing.
  The vestry and transept house the Vernon Chapel which has a transept gable end and a central pointed doorway with nookshafts and an outer dog-tooth and an inner rosette moulding. Above is a three-light window with hood mould and foliated stops. The adjacent gable end has at its base a gabled monument to Thomas Bowater Vernon (died 1859). Above is a rose window with a hood mould returning to form a string. The east-side elevation has a dog-tooth eaves moulding and a three light window.
  In the churchyard, at the edge of the woodland to the north, is the grave of Emma Vernon (1754–1818), who inherited the Hanbury Estate.  The churchyard also contains a war grave of a Royal Corps of Signals soldier of World War II.
caption: Tomb of Thomas Bowater Vernon, of Hanbury Hall, outside the Vernon Chapel
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