Church Of St Mary

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE TOWN HEAD NY 9425 (East side)

24/131 (inset) Church of St. Mary

GV II

Parish church. 1878 by C. Hodgson Fowler on medieval church site. Squared sandstone in courses of varied thickness with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof of graduated grey/green slates with roll-moulded ridge tiles and stone gable coping. 4-bay aisled nave with south porch; 3-bay chancel with north vestry and organ chamber. Steps up to open arch in buttressed porch under steep gable; inner double boarded doors with strap hinges; both arches pointed, the outer with 3 hollow chamfers under leaf-stopped dripmould, the inner with beakhead corbels, 2 wide chamfers. Pointed-arched windows, with cusped Y-tracery in aisles and chancel; 3-light in east end of south aisle with intersecting tracery; similar style 4-light west window. Cusped reticulated tracery in 5-light east window; stepped sill string to chancel. 2-light square-headed clerestory windows with cusped tracery. Stone cross finials on nave and on lower chancel; coping also on pent aisle roofs.

Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades and dressings; collared king- post nave roof on corbels; panelled chancel roof. Double-chamfered pointed arcades on octagonal piers; similar chancel arch on head-corbelled shafts. Re-used 2-light medieval window in organ chamber. Tub font on medieval octagonal pedestal and 3 chamfered medieval shafts. 14 grave covers (some incomplete) with incised decoration, and some fragments of chevron moulding, built into north wall. North chancel wall has small brass to Simon Comyer d.1620, with brass coat of arms above. C19 chancel screen and furnishings. Glass includes some late C19; 2 windows dated and signed 1982 by G. Maile Studio, Canterbury - including St. Miriam, to an organist. Early C19 poor box with 2 locks and inscription in Roman capitals.

Source: P. Ryder, Medieval Grave Covers of County Durham.

Listing NGR: NY9477025639