Church Of St Mary

The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II* listed building located in Kirk Bramwith. The church features a south door and chancel arch from the 12th century, while most of the structure dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed from ashlar magnesian limestone with roofs made of stone slate and Welsh slate. The layout includes a west tower with a north vestry, a three-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel.

The tower has offset and moulded bands, diagonal buttresses on the west side, one of which has a carved cross. It features a plain two-light west window and a slit window for the stair turret on the left. The upper stage of the tower has a cruciform window and a string course beneath it, along with chamfered two-light windows and a crenellated parapet adorned with crocketed corner pinnacles.

In the nave, the 12th-century doorway in the first bay has two orders of colonettes with scalloped capitals, a zig-zag design on the inner order, and restored beakhead ornament on the outer order with a hoodmould. To the right of the door is a window with two ogee-headed lights in a square-faced surround, and to the east, there is a large buttress and another window with two ogee lights in a chamfered, moulded surround, along with a fragment of a medieval cross in the wall beyond. The round-arched north door has been converted into a two-light Y-tracery window, with a window of two round-headed lights in a square-faced surround to its left. The gable copings feature an east cross.

The chancel includes a 14th-century quadrant-moulded priest's door to the left of a two-light double-chamfered window with shouldered heads. The east window, dating from the 15th century, has three lights in a hollow-chamfered surround with a hoodmould, while the north window has two round-headed lights in a double-chamfered design.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered and rests on a moulded impost band that has been partly cut back. There are round inner arches leading to the north and south doors. The chancel arch features shafted responds and scalloped capitals, with a two-order round arch that has roll moulds on the soffit and zig-zag and lozenge patterns on the hood. The nave contains 20th-century furnishings by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, along with 20th-century stained glass. The nave roof, also from the 20th century, displays the arms of the Duchy of Lancaster and was created by G. G. Pace of York. The font beneath the tower appears to have been made from a medieval cross base, while a 15th-century font stands in the churchyard.