Church Of St Mary

SX 55 SE BRIXTON MAIN STREET, BRIXTON 4/4 29/3/60 Church of St Mary

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Parish Church. Circa C13 west tower, remainder late C15. Much restored in 1887 and 1894. Stone rubble with freestone granite dressings. Slate roofs. Nave and chancel in one with large C19 perpendicular five-light east window. Long north and south aisles with C19 Perpendicular three-light windows. South porch with moulded round arch with scrolls at base of jambs. Smaller moulded inner south doorway. West tower in two stages, with diagonal buttresses with set-offs. Corbelled embattled parapet and no pinnacles. Crenellated polygonal stair turret on south side. Perpendicular two and three-light bell openings, three-light Perpendicular west window and moulded two-centred arch west doorway with hood mould. Interior: Five bay north and south arcades with moulded monolithic granite piers with alternating shafts and diagonals, moulded capitals and bases, the north capitals are carved. Wide moulded four-centred arcade arches. Squints. C19 unceiled wagon roofs to nave and north and south aisles. C19 furnishings including carved reredos, pulpit, lectern, choir stalls and screens. Window in the vestry said to come from Spriddlestone qv. Monument: Lucy Penelope Palmer 1834 - kneeling female figure by an urn in marble in relief, by R Walker of Bristol. Reference: R Gunnis Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851.

Listing NGR: SX5538752194