Church Of St Andrew

MARRICK MARRICK PRIORY SE 09 NE 17/66 Church of St Andrew (formerly listed as Priory Church of St Andrew) GV II Church, now chapel and residential youth centre. C13, nave rebuilt 1811, converted c1970. Rubble, stone slate roof. West tower and nave with ruined chancel. 3-storey tower with flat-headed belfry openings, with mullions and transoms, on all 4 sides; stair turret on south side. Nave of 5 bays divided by shallow stepped buttresses: south door has Early English jambs under narrow pointed arch of 1811; above, large round window containing a quatrefoil, removed from north side c1970; Perpendicular windows of 2 lights with ogee tracery under flat heads. East wall of tower has Perpendicular roofline at a higher level than present roof, and blocked single-light, flat-headed opening. East window of nave of 3 lights with Perpendicular tracery above a crested transom, hollow-chamfered jambs. West wall of tower has diagonal buttresses, on ground floor a window of 3 lancet lights under 1 pointed arch, and single-light window to first floor. Interior: 2 eastern-most bays of nave used as chapel, the rest converted to hostel accommodation. The church has no aisles, but an Early English arcade was placed laterally across it in 1811, consisting of 2 round piers supporting 1 arch and 2 half-arches. Several tombstones in paving of medieval, C17 and C18 dates. Font, on Early English column base, has deeply-cusped stem and basin. Basin of Early English piscina. Jacobean altar table: panels from Jacobean pulpit incorporated in modern reading and prayer desks. On south wall, memorial to Thomas Fawcett of Oxque, d.1783, a celebrated cultivator of bees, and Francis Morley of Marrick Park, d.1854. On north wall, memorials to John Sherlock, d.1809, and Mary Sherlock, d.1814. Fragments of medieval stained glass in tracery of east window. Early English tower arch, with plain responds. Hatchment dated 1696. Ruins of chancel contain the jambs of a wide east window; south window survives with springing for Decorated tracery; fragments of aumbry, piscina and sedilia. Early English doorway removed from nave c1970 and incorporated into hostel building immediately to north of church (otherwise not of special interest). Farm buildings adjoining tower to north have fragments of early work. Originally the church of the Priory of Benedictine nuns founded in the C12, the nave was originally the conventual church, and the choir the parish church: after the Dissolution the nave became the parish church.

Listing NGR: SE0670197782