Church Of St Mary

SK 21 NW PARISH OF ROSLISTON MAIN STREET 2/45 (North Side) 19.1.67 Church of St Mary (formerly listed as 'Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary') II*

Parish church. C14 steeple, restored 1802, nave and chancel built 1819. Ashlar with stone dressings, plain plinth and graduated slate roof with ridgeback copings on moulded kneelers, that to eastern nave gable with ridge cross, plus coved cornice. Small western steeple with nave plus south porch and lower chancel bay. Two stage tower has a massive low clasping buttress to base with central steps on west side leading up to a small ogee headed C14 door plus hoodmould with foliage finial which forms the corbelled base of a trefoil headed moulded niche above. Bell stage is narrower and has a chamfered band to base. North and south sides have trefoil headed louvred lancets, west side has a simple louvred lancet with hoodmould and eastern side has similar blocked opening. Broached stone spire over has small lucarnes on four sides. North elevation has three chamfered pointed Y-tracery windows with transomes and leaded lights to nave, and a raised pointed doorcase with panelled door to chancel. East chancel elevation has similar transomed Y-tracery central window flanked by lower chamfered lancets. South elevation similar to north except central window exists only above transome level. South porch below has raised pointed outer arch, simple chamfered single light windows to either side, ridgeback copings to flush parapets and a similar pointed inner door with double panelled doors. Interior has three stepped chamfered pointed arches into the chancel bay and similar low arches between centre and side parts of the chancel bay. Nave has flat ceiling with reeded cornice and a pointed raised doorcase into the tower. Simple fittings with early C20 oak altar rails, a late C19 octagonal wooden pulpit, late C19 bench nave pews, and an octagonal stone font with moulded base. West end of nave has a late C19 organ and a vestry to south side divided off by late C19 timber screen with trefoil headed arcade to top. South side of nave has two re-set white marble oval wall memorials, to the Broune family, both of c1760 and north side has grey marble memorial to Albert Burton who died 1917. Above the tower door is a painted pointed plaque inscribed 'Upwards of two hundred free and unappropriated sittings have been obtained in this church by the aid of the Society for the Enlargment and Building of Churches and Chapels and by other voluntary Subscriptions 24 October 1819'. All nave windows have clear glass, chancel windows have coloured glass.

Listing NGR: SK2433716815