Church Of St Mark And Attached Boundary Wall

Church of St Mark and attached boundary wall

Parish church built in 1897, designed by Temple Moore. The building is constructed in uncoursed ashlar with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs, designed in the Perpendicular Revival style.

The church comprises a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, an eastern vestry and sacristy, a south-east tower, a northern lady chapel, and a transverse west porch.

The buttressed nave has at its east end a five-light pointed arch window with Decorated tracery and hoodmoulds with stops. The west end has a simpler four-light window with similar detailing. The south side of the nave features four segmental pointed arch three-light windows, while the north side has three similar windows.

The triple gabled vestry to the east is buttressed and has three narrow two-light windows. To the south is a single lancet window, and to the north is a shouldered doorway.

The square south-east tower has two stages with a battered plinth, string courses, and a crenellated parapet. A square stair turret is positioned to the east. The lower stage has two small windows stacked vertically on its south side. The bell stage features a small square-headed two-light bell opening on each side, with a stone mullion.

The gabled lady chapel has a single buttress on the north side, flanked to the east by a small double lancet and to the west by a much larger four-light pointed arch window. The east end has three small louvred loops, while the west end has a two-light pointed arch window with hoodmould and stops.

The nave's west end has a lean-to porch with four tall buttresses to the west and projecting end walls. It features five small traceried two-light pointed arch windows. The north and south ends have sloped coping below the gable, and each has a central chamfered pointed arched door with hoodmould, flanked by single small lancets.

Interior

The interior has five-bay arcades with square ashlar piers and rendered plain pointed arches with lower inner arches beneath. Narrow side passages have round arches. The roof is close-boarded with moulded arch braces, corbels, and wall plate.

The east end has a screen wall with a wide central pier flanked by single pointed arches with traceried wooden screens. The chancel arcades have similar screens. The stained-glass east window is probably by Kempe. North-east and south-east windows contain stained glass from circa 1920 and circa 1890 respectively.

The west end has a screen wall with a central octagonal pier flanked by large pointed arches and a plain west window.

The vestry and sacristy have dividing arches springing from the screen wall, and side passages with small stained-glass windows from 1904 and 1965. Two east windows contain stained glass from 1907, and the central window has fragments of medieval glass.

The lady chapel has a panelled dado and panelled wooden reredos with text. It contains a wooden aumbry and an ogee-headed piscina. The west end has wooden sedilia. The west window contains stained glass from 1927, and the north windows have stained glass from 1922 and the late twentieth century.

The west porch has a lean-to roof with arch braces and corbels. Canted internal porches are at each end. To the west are stained-glass windows from 1916 and 1917, probably by Kempe, along with others from the mid-twentieth century.

Fittings and memorials

The altar, reredos, crucifix, and canopy are probably by Leslie Moore. The church contains an inscribed octagonal panelled font, a traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, a good quality brass eagle lectern, traceried stalls, and sedilia, all from the nineteenth century. Chairs are used throughout the building. A wooden war memorial plaque from circa 1918 is present.

Boundary wall

An attached boundary wall to the south is constructed of coursed squared stone with a ramped half-round coping. A pair of square gate piers with square domed caps flanks the entrance.