Church of St Mary and St John

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SD 89 SE 7/148

HIGH ABBOTSIDE HARDRAW Church of St Mary and St John

(Formerly listed as Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, HARDROW)

25.3.69

GV II Church. 1879-81. By R H Carpenter for the Earl of Wharncliffe. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate roof.

Nave with west bellcote and south porch, chancel with north vestry, 4:2 bays. Porch: pointed-arched doorway of two chamfered orders dying into rounded responds. Above, in gable, trefoiled niche. Inner doorway: neo-Romanesque, one order with water-leaf capitals. Nave windows: paired lancets with quatrefoil above in plate tracery. Chancel: two trefoiled lights; priest's doorway matching that of porch; one trefoiled light. Copings. Gable crosses. East window of three stepped lancets. North windows: single lights. West window: two trefoiled lights with sexfoil above. Neo-Romanesque two-light bellcote.

Interior: Early English-style chancel arch of two chamfered orders. Vestry screen C17, panelled with fluted frieze.Plaque in vestry recording C18 grants from Queen Anne's Bounty. In nave, brass of Alice Stuart, d 1788.

Listing NGR: SD8673591270