Church Of St Winifred

STAINTON SCHOOL LANE SK59SE (south side)

9/57 Church of St. Winifred

5.6.68

GV II*

Church. C12, C13, C14 and C15 with C19 restoration. Rubble magnesian limestone, red tile roofs. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch and separately-roofed 2-bay south chapel; narrower and lower 2-bay chancel. Tower: Perpendicular, 3 stages. Chamfered plinth and moulded band; diagonal buttresses flank 3-light west window with hoodmould; slit windows to internal south-west stair turret. String courses below and above short 2nd stage; 2- light, pointed-arched belfry openings with louvres and hoodmoulds; north and south gargoyles to string course beneath embattled ashlar parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave: bay-1 porch has double-chamfered pointed arch beneath coped gable; doorway within has simple pointed arch; on left of porch a restored 2-light window with cusping and hoodmould. Late C14 chapel on right of porch has moulded plinth, quoins and offset diagonal east buttress; square-headed south window of 2 ogee lights; C19 pedimented wall monuments flanking good 3-light east window with reticulated tracery; chamfered eaves band with 2 grotesque masks. Nave north wall has diagonal west buttress and renewed quadrant-moulded doorway with hoodmould flanked by pointed 2-light windows with cusping and hoodmoulds; cusped twin lancets to bay 3. Chancel; C12 and C13; blocked, chamfered and round-arched priests' door on left of a pointed-arched 2-light window having double-chamfered surround and cusping; trefoil-headed lancet to north; renewed triple lancet to east. C19 gable copings and crosses throughout. Interior: double-chamfered tower arch, the inner order on corbels carved with daggers; round inner arch to south door; double-chamfered arch into south chapel which contains an ogee-headed piscina with half-octagonal bowl, Plain C12 chancel arch springing from chamfered impost; above and to left of priests' door is part of a round-headed window surround. Font: octagonal, chalice-shaped with foiled side panels. Monuments: various good C18 wall monuments in nave; on south wall a large broken-pedimented aedicule with fluted pilasters to George Pashley of Stainton (d1663) has date 1708. In north chapel, against wall, a cross slab to Nicholas Hall (d1523) and Margaret (d1500); another slab to Bridget Bosvile (d1793), Stone beneath fort to Hugh Bosvile (dl581).

Listing NGR: SK5552093633