Church Of St Mary

SP 07 SE WYTHALL CP CHAPEL LANE (west side)

7/196 Church of St Mary

24.4.74

GV II

Parish church. 1862 by F Preedy, tower added 1903 by W H Bidlake. Nave, south aisle, chancel, central tower. Polychromatic brickwork with stone dressings and slate roof. South aisle: three bays divided by stepped buttresses, entrance to left slightly advanced with gable over has a 2- centred arch with engaged respond shafts; one window to each bay of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred heads; chancel: two bays with lancets; east window: three trefoiled lights under 2-centred head. Tower of 1903 rises two stages above aisle. First stage has a 2-light window under 2- centred head; the belfy stage has on each side a pair of large open 2-light windows with 2-centred heads and multiple engaged shafts to responds, octagonal stair turret on north-east corner has a conical stone roof; roof gabled north/ south, surmounted by a fleche. Interior: polychromatic brickwork, three-bay arcade to south aisle of brick on stone columns; at crossing 2-centred arches in all directions with respond shafts. The massive tower is a prominent land- mark in the predominantly flat terrain around Wythall. (BoE, pp 337 - 338).

Listing NGR: SP0728374885