Church Of Saint Mary

SD 99 NW MUKER MUKER

14/147 Church of Saint Mary 7.12.66 GV II *

Church. 1580, C18, restored 1891. Rubble, stone slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel under 1 roof, south porch. Tower: possibly 1580. 3 stages. Quoins. On ground floor, a vent with vertical iron bar. 2-light chamfered-mullion belfry openings. Bench-mark on west face. Lead rainwater head cast with "R METCALFE, I CALVERT, C-WARDENS 1793". Porch: dated 1849 on kneeler. Coursed stone. Sundial. Inner doorway: 4-centred arch, chamfered, with inscription "LW 1719 IP". Nave and chancel: substantially of 1580. 3 and 2 bays. 2-light chamfered-mullion window to south-west. Other windows C19, of 2 trefoil-headed lights with hoodmoulds. East window: 3 trefoil-headed lights under hoodmould. North side has C18 lead rainwater head. Interior: beaded wall plate and roof timbers substantially of 1580, but raised from steeper thatched pitch in 1761. Font: C19, round basin on cylindrical shaft and base. On south wall of sanctuary, a small stone inscribed "SG 1769". Against north wall of sanctuary, vertical slab commemorating Mr James of the parish of Redrith, Cornwall, d.1746. South wall of chancel, memorial to Alexander Calvert of Richmond, land agent and commissioner under Inclosure Acts, d.1834. North wall of nave, memorial to Edmund Alderson Knowles of Low Row d.1835 by G Green, Newcastle, and board painted with rules for use of Parish Hearse, 1836. A rare example of a new church in 1580. E Cooper, Muker: The Story of a Yorkshire Parish (1948).

Listing NGR: SD9105597880