Church Of St Mary

SE 62 SW CARLTON HIGH STREET (west side) 9/11 Church of St Mary 17.11.86 - II Church. 1861-6. AD 1862 on tower buttress. By J B Atkinson. Sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-stage south-west tower with spire, 6-bay nave with south porch and north vestry, 3-bay chancel. Gothic Revival with Geometrical tracery throughout. Tower has offset angle buttresses, stair turret with plank door in shouldered surround and 3-light window to south side under hoodmould and with nook-shafts. Second stage has twin-light bell openings. Octagonal splay-footed spire. Entrance to south porch a plank door within trefoiled surround with foliate decoration on spandrels. 2 orders of nook-shafts support roll moulding under hoodmould. Nave and vestry have offset buttresses. Pointed north door under hoodmould. 2- and 3-light pointed windows throughout under hoodmoulds. Chancel has diagonal buttresses. Pointed priests' door to south side. Single-light windows under hoodmoulds and with continuous sill band. 4-light window to east end under hoodmould, quatrefoil to gable. Interior. Nave has hammer beam roof on corbel shafts with foliate capitals. Pointed chancel arch with traceried screen. Trefoiled piscina. Wall monuments to Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8th Baron Beaumont, d1854, by P Macdowell RA, Baroque wall monument to Nicholas and Mary Stapleton, erected 1738. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 157.

Listing NGR: SE6472024044