Church Of Saint Mary

The Church of Saint Mary is a Grade I listed building located on Main Street in Scawton. It dates back to the 12th century, with 15th-century additions and a porch, and was restored in 1892 by C. Hodgson Fowler. The church is constructed of limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof.

The structure consists of a 2-bay nave with a south porch and a 2-bay chancel. The west front has a restored round-headed window and a wooden bellcote at the gable end. The south porch contains a round-headed door with two zigzag-moulded orders supported by colonnettes with scalloped capitals, along with a beaded hoodmould. There is a 3-light square-headed double-chamfered window in the second bay. On the north side, there is a blocked square-headed doorway with a narrow single-light round-headed window immediately to the left, and square-headed windows at both the extreme left and right.

In the chancel, there is a blocked square-headed priests' door on the south side, along with two square-headed windows. The north side features two round-headed windows. The east end has a 3-light trefoil-headed window in a square-headed frame, with a narrow slit window above it.

Inside, the chancel arch is flanked by arched niches with nook-shafts that were originally for reredoses of lay altars, but have been converted to squints. To the left of the altar, there is a niche of uncertain function that includes a trough and two columns with waterleaf capitals supporting a moulded cornice. To the right of the altar, there is a single pointed sedile, a square-headed aumbry, and a pointed piscina. The font is round and possibly Norman, set on a later base, and features a tall octagonal wooden cover from the 17th century.