Church Of St Mary Magdalene

BELMONT BROOMSIDE LANE NZ 34 SW (North side) 7/11 Church of St. 10/5/67 Mary Magdalene GV II

Parish church. 1857 by William Butterfield. Minor late C19 alterations; 1901 vestry by C.H. Fowler. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings; plinth to vestry. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. 4-bay nave with north porch; 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Steps up to boarded north door, with leaf-decorated strap hinges, in deeply-moulded 2-centred-arched surround, under wood-bracketed castslide roof. Ovolo-moulded cusped ogee tracery in windows, mostly 2-light, with alternate-block surrounds and sloping sills. South-west nave window more elaborate and with dripmould. Decorated 3-light east window has beakhead-stopped dripmould; west window has plate tracery with 3 ogee-headed lights. Short buttresses, and continuous stepped sill string, to chancel, vestry and north nave. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced roof with collars and short king-posts, having 2 tiers of thin wood arches between each collar and apex, and bolted arch braces; tension rods stirrup-fastened to king-posts. Deep dripmould over high chamfered chancel arch with inner ovolo-moulded arch on shafts with fillets. Similar dripmould to vestry door. Ovolo-moulded window surrounds with double-chamfered sill steps. 1892 reredos by Butterfield. Early C20 pews by Thompson of Masham. Chancel panelling with traceried arch over sedilia. East window dated and signed 1923 by W. Glasby London.

Listing NGR: NZ3039743615