Church Of St Mary The Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1950. Church.
Church Of St Mary The Virgin
- WRENN ID
- under-eave-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1950
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 68 NE LYMM C.P. CHURCH LANE (south side)
2/41 Church of St.Mary the Virgin
24/1/1950 II
Church 1850-2 by John Dobson, west tower rebuilt 1888-90 by J.S.Crowther. Buff sandstone (coursed in tower, tooled squared rubble elsewhere). Aisled nave of 5 bays, north porch, transepts, chancel, vestry, 3-stage battlemented west tower with diagonal buttresses. Perpendicular west window and paired bell-openings with panel tracery. 3-light Perpendicular aisle windows under camber-arches; triple trefoil-headed lancets to clerestory; geometrical windows and diagonal buttresses to transepts; geometrical east windows, Perpendicular window to vestry/sacristy. Interior: Nave arcades have octagonal piers; arch-braced trusses to roof. Collar-beam trusses to transepts, panelled roof to chancel. Galleries in transepts. Stained glass west window 1853, east window 1865 (in memory of Rector), 3 south aisle windows by Wailes, 1 north aisle window by Kempe. Octagonal stone font, probably mid C17; plain panelled oak pulpit 1623. Supposed Roman altar (in preserved medieval Decorated niche in south aisle), but with IW (John Warburton?) carved on head and horseshoe motif on each side of stone. Monuments: W.Domville 1686; John Leigh 1806 and wife 1819; tablets to members of Fox family early C19. Hatchments in tower.
Listing NGR: SJ6826586810
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