Church Of St Mary

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SK38NE BRAMALL LANE 784-1/6/95 (East side) 28/06/73 Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: BRAMALL LANE Church of St Mary) (Formerly Listed as: BRAMALL LANE Community Centre within Church of St Mary)

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Church and community centre. 1826-30, altered and divided to form community centre c1970. By Joseph and Robert Potter. Ashlar with slate roof. Perpendicular Revival style. PLAN: chancel, nave with aisles, vestries, west tower, west porches. EXTERIOR: moulded plinth and sillbands, eaves band, coped parapet and gables, buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. Windows have hoodmoulds with stops. Blank sided chancel has pierced crenellated east gable with octagonal flanking piers topped with octagonal spires and ogee finials. Transomed 5-light pointed arched window with moulded head and finial. North and south aisles, 7 bays, have octagonal corner turrets with finials. 7 tall transomed 3-light pointed arched windows. Under the central window a C20 door, that to south larger and with curved brick flanking walls. At the east ends, 2-light pointed arched windows. Single storey parapeted vestries at the east ends of the aisles have 2-light pointed arched windows to the sides and doors to west. Square west tower, 3 stages, has string courses, mask corbel table and octagonal corner turrets topped with crocketed spires. Moulded west doorway with single shafts and crocketed ogee gable, covering wrought-iron gates. Second stage has a blank transomed 3-light pointed arched opening to the west, and 2-light similar openings on each side, and above them, a clock on each side but the east. Bell stage has a transomed 3-light pointed arch bell-opening on each side with crocketed ogee gable. Flanking the tower, single angle buttressed square porches with crenellated parapets. To west, single transomed 2-light pointed arched windows. To north and south, a panelled door with crocketed ogee gable and above it, a figure niche. INTERIOR: divided interior has roll moulded chancel arch with double ringed shafts and hoodmould. Rib vaulted chancel has Royal arms in boss. Under the tower, ringed triple shafts and rib vaulted porch dated 1829. Fittings include traceried organ case, traceried wooden pulpit and traceried octagonal font. Panelled benches, some with shaped ends.

Listing NGR: SK3524886306