Church Of Saint Mary

SE 58 SW 8/51 4.1.55

SCAWTON MAIN STREET (east side) Church of Saint Mary

GV I

Church. C12 with C15 insertions and porch and restoration of 1892 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Limestone rubble, stone slate roof. 2-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. West front: restored round-headed window. Wooden bellcote to gable end. To south: porch contains round-headed door of 2 zigzag-moulded orders supported on colonnettes with scalloped capitals. Beaded hoodmould. 3-light square-headed double-chamfered window to second bay. To north: blocked square-headed doorway with narrow single-light round-headed window immediately to left and square-headed windows to extreme left and right. Chancel: to south a blocked square-headed priests' door, and 2 square-headed windows. 2 round-headed windows to north. East end: 3- light trefoil-headed window in square-headed frame with narrow slit window above. Interior: chancel arch flanked by arched niches with nook-shafts for reredoses of lay altars, later converted to squints. To left of altar a niche of uncertain function consisting of a trough and two columns with waterleaf capitals supporting a moulded cornice. To right of altar a single pointed sedile, a square-headed aumbry and a pointed piscina. Font: round, possible Norman on later base, with tall octagonal C17 wooden cover. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE5489783590