Church Of St Mary

PRESCOT CHURCH STREET SJ 49 SE (south side) 6/28 Church of 19/3/51 St. Mary

G.V. I

Church. C14 lean-to vestry to south of chancel; nave and chapel, 1610 (dated on plaques); tower dated 1729; aisles, 1818-19. Tower has base with cyma moulding; west entrance has Tudor head with roll moulded surround with 3 pointed overlights, hollow-chamfered square-headed architrave with label mould. Round-headed west window has 3 round-headed lights and 2 roundels, roundel above has torus surround and top mask. Frieze inscribed "CONDITUM ANO DOMNI 1729" and cornice. Bell stage has Doric flat pilasters and entablature, 2-light round-headed bell openings, louvred lights and clock faces, that to east has angel key. Parapet with balustrading and 3 finials to each angle. Spire has 3 tiers of lucarnes and sill courses. Aisles have cornices and embattled parapets, 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. Clerestory has 3-light square-headed windows Chancel has south windows as above; east window of 4 lights with uncusped Perpendicular tracery. Vestry to south of 1900, north vestry has square-headed windows. Interior: 5- bay arcades, octagonal piers and single chamfered arches. West wall has stucco tracery panelling. Roof has alternating tie beam and hammer beam trusses, braces, pendants and curved wind braces. Wall plaques record armorial bearings of local families, and date, roof also dated. Timber screen of 1921. Stalls dated 1636, fluting and poppy-headed bench ends. Timber panelling with frieze. Panelled timber reredos, 1891. 3-sided early C17 altar rail with turned balusters. Round plain font, possibly Anglo- Saxon. Font of 1755, baluster on scrolly base supporting shallow reeded bowl. Monument to John Ogle, died 1612, upright effigy in contemporary dress. Other C18 and C19 monuments, principally T. Barrow, died 1751, by D. Sephton, and Sir W. Atherton, died 1803, by Sir R. Westmacott. South aisle east window, 1879, by Morris and Co., grisaille flower quarries and 3 small figures. East window of 1840, classically draped figures under gothic canopies, removed after damage, 1985.

Listing NGR: SJ4653192700