Church Of St Michael And St George

NZ 6808 and NZ 60 NE DANBY CHURCH STREET Castleton

13/20 and 6/20 Church of 6/10/69 St. Michael and St. George II

Church, 1924,dated on stone at south-east corner by Leslie Moore. Rockfaced snecked brown sandstone; green slate roof. West tower, nave and south porch, chancel and north vestry. Mid C14 style.

Square, buttressed west tower with stepped-in upper stage. 2-centred- arched West doorway.

2- and 3-light bell openings under low battlemented parapet. Gabled porch. Cusped 2-light nave south windows. North nave wall has high filled arcade, as though an aisle had been planned. Chancel has Carnaervon-arched priest's door, south windows similar to nave and an east window with cusped reticulated tracery. Pent vestry with door similar to priest's door.

Another inscribed stone adds that the building of the church was inspired by the Rev. Sydney Smith, vicar 1918-28.

Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings, the arcading noted externally expressed on north wall. Good carved wood screens to chancel and tower arches. Panelled sanctuary with reredos painting of the patron saints. Enriched communion rail. Aumbry, piscina and sedilia. Hexagonal stone font. All internal detail well designed and crisply executed.

Wood plaque records grant of £150.00 from the Incorporated Church Building Society on condition that all seats should be free to parishioners and that an annual collection be taken for the benefit of the Society.

Pevsner, N. Riding p.118.

Listing NGR: NZ6899908114