St Mary the Virgin
Wellingborough, GB
A thrilling experience: Sir Ninian Comper's masterpiece built between 1908 and 1930. It is a free essay in the gothic style fearlessly mixed with classical appropriations.
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St Mary the Virgin (University Church)
Oxford, GB
There has been a church on this site for a thousand years, standing in the very centre of the ancient walled city of Oxford.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Brickhill
Great Brickhill, GB
St Mary the Virgin's Church at Brickhill is a Grade II listed parish church. The church is known to have an interesting history.
St Mary the Virgin with St John
Great Brington, GB
The church dates from around 1300 but it is the intervention of the Spencer family of nearby Althorp that transformed the medieval building. Sir John Spencer (d1522) rebuilt the chancel and commenced the funerary chapel that lies adjacent to it. Further intervention of both church and chapel was carried out by Edward Bloor in 1840s.
St Mary Undercroft
Westminster, GB
The Chapel of St Mary Undercroft was completed by King Edward I in 1297, further developed under Edward II, and finally completed by Edward III in around 1365.
St Mary with St Gabriel
Binbrook, GB
Two churches are recorded at Binbrook in Domesday, these most likely being the former churches of St Mary and St Gabriel. Just a few hundred yards from one another, this may have happened if there were two principal landowners and each built a church.
St Mary Woolnoth
City of London, GB
On Easter Day 1727 St Mary Woolnoth of the nativity was reopened after it's rebuilding by Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is the only church he built in the City of London. The rebuilding had taken 12 years, paid for from the proceeds of the tax on sea borne coal.
St Mary's and St Walstan's Church, Bawburgh
Bawburgh, GB
St Mary and St Walstan's Church is located in the village of Bawburgh, just to the west of the A47 Norwich Southern Bypass road
St Mary's Birth, Monschau
Monschau, DE
St Mary's Birth is a Catholic church consecrated in 1751 in Monschau.
St Mary's Cathedral
Kilkenny, IE
St Mary's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Kilkenny. It was built from 1843 to 1857 and designed by the architect William Deane Butler (1794-1857). The cathedral has a cross plan, and its style is described as "early English Gothic". It was probably inspired by the English cathedral in Gloucester.
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