Church Of St Mary The Virgin

FORD ETAL NT 9239 16/76 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 21.9.51 GV II

Church. 1858 by William Butterfield for Lady Fitz Clarence. Pink sandstone ashlar with dressings and bands of beige sandstone. Graduated Lakeland slate roofs with cresting of tiles. Decorated style. Nave, chancel, north porch, south chapel and vestry.

Three-bay nave has porch to right with pointed-arched doorways, semicircular responds with moulded capitals and very steeply-pitched roof with foliated- cross finial. One-light cusped windows. Gabled buttress marks junction of nave and chancel. Against chancel a lean-to vestry, with trefoil-headed doorway on right return. Three-light west and east windows. Extremely high and steeply-pitched roof. Steeply-gabled bellcote between nave and chancel has a pair of cusped ogee bell openings and above an oval opening with two mouchettes and a quatrefoil. South chapel under separate and similar roof; rose window in east end; west end has 2-light window and, beneath, a doorway with shouldered lintel.

Interior: broad chancel arch with semicircular responds. Low wrought-iron screen and chancel gates. Two 3-light Decorated openings into south chapel. Piscina with Decorated open-work tracery. Wrought-iron altar rails. Nave has king-post roof. Chancel is half a scissor-brace roof and half boarded, the beams painted with stars and rosettes.

Listing NGR: NT9286239399