Church Of St Mary

WESTON COLVILLE CHURCH END TL 65 SW 5/113 Church of St Mary 22.11.67 II* Parish church. Medieval origin but much rebuilt c.1825. Flint and fieldstones, with clunch and limestone dressings. C19 dressings are of gault brick. Slate roofs. West tower, aisleless nave, south porch and chance with north vestry. West tower, almost entirely C19 except for ground stage which has a wide splay to rear arch of west window. Embattled, three stages with three-stage diagonal buttressing. Moulded main cornice. Window openings are C19 with segmental arches except for west window in gault brick surround. Nave. Three windows in south wall, clunch, each of two moulded orders in four centred head with label. C16-C17. South porch, C14-C15. Two centred outer arch of clunch of two continuous moulded orders. Inner arch also of clunch, two centred and of three continuous moulded orders with label. Chancel, C19, with two windows in south wall. Two leaded lights with Y tracery of wood in two centred arches and brick surrounds. Each window has perpendicular style tracery of limestone. North wall of nave. Three windows. Clunch restored with limestone. Two centred arches with Y tracery. Interior; Late C13 chancel arch of three grouped shafts with moulded capitals and bases in two-centred arch. Brasses: south of chancel arch. Robert Leverer (d.1427), Isabella his wife and John, his son. Abraham Gates (d.1636) and his wife. North wall of nave. Niche with cinquefoil cusping to the head. C15.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p479

Listing NGR: TL6161953152