Church Of St Mary

SE 80 NW WEST BUTTERWICK WEST STREET (north side, off)

8/155 Church of St Mary

GV II

Parish church. 1841 by Briggs; later C19 vestry in matching style and materials. West gallery removed and interior fittings renewed in 1879. White brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower with south door, 3-bay nave, single-bay chancel/sacristy with later vestry adjoining north side. Plinth. 2-stage tower: tall first stage has diagonal buttresses with offsets rising to short stone-coped piers, Tudor-arched hollow-chamfered south door in square-headed chamfered reveal with foliate carvings to spandrels, hoodmould and head stops; west lancet with hoodmould, single narrow lancets above to north and south. Splay-footed octagonal belfry with alternate blind lancets and lancet openings with hoodmoulds and wooden louvres, clockface to west. String course, coped embattled parapet. Octagonal spire with ashlar finial and wrought-iron weather-vane. Nave: thin diagonal buttresses and buttresses between bays, rising to coped piers above parapet; pointed 2- light Y-traceried windows with hoodmoulds, string course, coped parapet. Chancel/sacristy: angle buttresses, pointed traceried north and south lancets with hoodmoulds and shield stops, east side has buttress between chancel to left with triple traceried lancets with hoodmoulds and shield stops, and sacristy to right with similar twin lancets; moulded string course, coped embattled parapet. Vestry has 4-centred arch door and lancet to east, coped embattled parapet. Hipped roof. Interior. Pointed chamfered door to nave, pointed chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould, vaulted roof to sanctuary, pointed chamfered door to sacristy. 6-bay ceiled nave roof with plain corbelled tie beams. Marble wall tablet to Michael Goodsir of 1839. C19 octagonal font. Reset fragments of early (perhaps medieval) stained glass to north, C19 stained glass to south and east, the latter by Thomas Ward of London. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 419. D L Roberts, "Lincolnshire and Humberside", in J Hadfield (ed), The Shell Book of English Villages, 1980, p 379; photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE8348705845