Church Of St Mary

NY 34 SE SEBERGHAM Church town

9/163 Church of St Mary

11.4.67 II*

Parish church. Medieval with repairs of 1774 and 1785, tower 1825 and 1905 restoration. Mixed large and small blocks of red sandstone. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. Thin 3-storey west tower/porch; 3-bay nave and lower single-bay chancel. Side entrance in tower has alternate-block surround and voussoirs; external stone steps to first floor west doorway, with louvred vents above, under battlemented parapet with pinnacles. Nave has blocked segmental-arched north door. 2-light Tudor window and original lancet window. South wall has been heavily restored with 2- and 3-light 1905 windows. Chancel has 4 original lancet windows. 3-light east window of 1905. Interior of nave: open timber ceiling of 1905 and 3-light oriel window over west door of same date. Wall plaques to various local families, one to Thomas Watson 1823 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson with sculptured panel after Fuseli's Three Witches (illustrated by Pevsner, Buildings of England, Cumberland and Westmorland volume, plate 57). Chancel has flat Tudor-style timber ceiling. Lancet windows have rear arches. Wall plaque with coats-of-arms to Thomas Denton, 1616.

Listing NGR: NY3640941849