Church Of St Mary

GREAT OUSEBURN MAIN STREET SE 4461-4561 (north-east side) 9/15 Church of St.Mary 15/3/66 GV II* Church. Norman tower with C13 belfry; C14 arcades, with vestry and aisles rebuilt 1820; C15 chancel and south chapel of 1883. Ashlar stone with sandstone and red brick vestry; stone slate roofs. West tower; 3-bay aisled nave; chancel, north vestry and south chapel. 3-stage tower on chamfered plinth. Inserted lancet in first stage, west face, and slit lights to south on first and second stages: second-stage light has reset corbelhead above. Clock face to west in second stage. Bell openings on all faces are paired round-headed chamfered lights with squared centre shafts, closed by pierced shutters. Chamfered belfry string course; embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles above waterspouts to east, west and south. Pyramidal roof. South aisle west end contains pointed double-chamfered doorway, with board double doors, beneath hoodmould. North and south aisle walls each contain three pointed 2-light windows with Y-tracery, beneath hoodmoulds. South chapel has chamfered plinth and offset west buttress. Moulded pointed priest's door- way and reset square-headed window of three cusped lancets to east. C19 Perpendicular window in chapel east end. Square-headed 2-light window in chancel south wall, and similar in north wall, partly obscured by lean-to vestry. Perpendicular east window in double-chamfered pointed opening. Interior. Round, double-chamfered tower arch on rectangular responds with plain imposts, coved on lower side. Arcades of tall, pointed, double- chamfered arches on slender cylindrical columns with moulded octagonal caps. Slightly stilted, two-centred, double-chamfered chancel arch on half-octagonal responds. Monuments: two wall monuments by Fisher of York on chancel north wall: a draped urn on a pedestal to Elizabeth Young, d.1779; and a panel in carved surround surmounted by a slender urn, to Sarah Horsfield, d.1780.

Listing NGR: SE4491261782