Sextons Cottage To St Marys Church

Sexton’s Cottage to St Mary’s Church, dating from 1887, was designed by John Douglas and built at the expense of the first Duke of Westminster. The cottage is constructed from stone-dressed Ruabon red brick with blue diapering, and has a red clay tile roof. It’s a two-story building of one bay, with a hip-roofed porch facing the churchyard to the left of the ground floor. The cottage’s gable end faces the road. The first storey is supported by two corbelled basket-arches above a slightly bayed window featuring three ogee-headed leaded lights. A stone band appears above the window, with diapering, followed by two mullioned two-light leaded casements set within ornate sandstone surrounds. Another stone band sits above the window lintels. The gable is stepped and shaped with diapering, containing a leaded light to the cockloft, stone copings, and a ball finial. A chimney runs along the ridge with three spiral-moulded brick flues to the front and one to the rear. A simpler stone-capped rear gable is visible. The porch has a small leaded light and a door consisting of five tall, narrow panels fixed with blacksmith’s hinges within an ornate sandstone case bearing the date 1887. A wrought-iron gate leads to the cottage and the churchyard. The interior has not been inspected.