Parish Church Of St Mary

SEVENTY SECOND LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST COMPILED UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971

TL 51 NE AYTHORPE RODING PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

2/80 23.2.67

GV II*

Chancel and nave C13, bell-turret circa 1300. Restored and N vestry and S porch added late C19. Flint rubble, cement rendered externally and plastered internally, clunch dressings much restored. Roofs tiled, bell-turret weatherboarded, spire shingled. E wall of chancel has 3 C19 lancet windows. In N wall 3 C13 lancet windows much restored externally. In the S wall 3 similar lancet windows; between the 2 W windows is a doorway, C19 externally but with splays and segmental rear arch C13. Brick angle buttresses at E end, early C20. In N wall of nave a lancet window similar to those in N wall of chancel but more widely splayed. Further W is the N doorway, C19 except for segmental rear-arch. In S wall 3 lancet windows uniform with that in N wall. Between the two W windows is the S doorway, C19 except for splays and segmental rear-arch, C13. In W wall a lancet window uniform with that in N wall. Chancel roof has wall plates with two bowtell in great casement mouldings, the lower edge concealed by plaster. A short section at the W end of each is missing, provably indicating the former position of a roof loft. Framed in 7 cants, mostly C19, but with one complete rafter couple at E end and some reused collar-braces on C19 rafters. 2 plain and waney tiebeams, inserted. Chancel arch of timber 2-centred, C19. Nave roof has plain wall plates and 2 tiebeams, the E plain and wavey, the W moulded, C15. Roof 7-canted, C19. Bell-turret at W end of nave on 4 posts, with curved braces to E tiebeam but missing under W tiebeam, circa 1300 (Hewett, 1982, pp. 667). Date of spire unknown, but a spire was mentioned in 1768 by Morant (II, 468). Three bells, all said to be by John Tonne, early C16, and inscribed (1) De celis missi nomen habeo gabrielis (2) Virginis atq matri resonet campana marie (3) Hec fratris simonis andree nomen habqto. Stone coffin-lid set in floor of nave near SE angle, with raised cross, much worn, C13. Floor-slab in nave to William Cowland, 1687. Piscina in S corner of chancel, with chamfered 2-centred head and 2 round drains, C13. Three plain benches, C16, and 5 others rebuilt with some later timber. Pulpit, font, all other benches C19. S door-leaf is C19 but incorporates older stock-lock, latch and nails. RCHM 1.

Listing NGR: TL5843415350