Church Of St Mary In The Wood (Congregational)

SE2628SW LS27 TROY ROAD MORLEY (east side) 7/47 30.4.82 CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE WOOD Congregational Church

GV II

Congregational Church. 1878 by Lockwood and Mawson. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roof. Cruciform. Aisleless nave, transepts, shallow east end, tall south-west corner tower. Gothic Revival simple Early English style. 4-stage tower with angle buttresses which rise to form octagonal corner turrets flanking pedimented gable with clock set between which hides base of broached stone spire. 2-light shafted bell stage openings. West end of nave has shafted paired doorways recessed for one order with rich foliate carving and large naturalistic rose to tympanum. West window has 4 cusped lights with cinquefoils over 2 pairs and one to apex. 3-bay nave articulated by offset buttresses has 3-light window to ground floor with trefoil-headed lights and gallery with arched lights. 2nd bay has gabled dormer with larger 3-light window with quatrefoil to apex. Attached to 1st bay of north elevation projecting canted corner bay. Tall gabled transepts with tall 3-light windows to light gallery, diagonal buttresses. West window has 4 trefoil-headed lights surmounted by large rose window.

Interior: gallery to 3 sides, supported on cast-iron Doric columns, with tiered pitch-pine box pews. Columns continue to support arch-braced roof with braced wall ties supported on stone corbels. Chancel arch springs from short marble columns. Elaborate carved pulpit has panels decorated with Perpendicular tracery. Choir-stalls with poppy-heads. Large Royal Coat-of-Arms dated 1664 painted on wood panels from earlier church on this site. Site of Presbyterian church during the Commonwealth and Congregationalist from C1800.

Listing NGR: SE2638028012