Church Of St Mary The Virgin

INGLETON MAIN STREET SD 6873-6973 (west side) 14/12 Church of St Mary the Virgin 20.2.58 GV II* Parish church. 1886-87 by C E Tate, except C15 west tower. Snecked and dressed stone, slate roof, rubble to tower. South entrance porch, 3 stage west tower, 5 bay nave and aisles, bay chancel, north vestry. Steeply pitched roof to porch, moulded segmental pointed arch, diagonal buttresses. Pointed entrance arch, plank doors and strap hinges. Tower, west pointed entrance with deeply chamfered surround, hoodmould, plank door. Tall 3-light window with c1887 mullions hoodmould. 2-light louvred window with trefoil heads to bell stage. Diagonal buttresses, string course to base of embattled parapet with 4 finials. Tall south entrance has corbelled and deeply chamfered pointed arch, plank doors. Four 3-light Perpendicular style windows to south aisle. 5 pairs of lancet windows with cusped heads to clerestory; continuous hoodmould. Corbel table. 2-lights and single-light south windows to chancel with cusped heads; foliate stops to hoodmould. Blind arcading to corbel table. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery, head stops to hoodmould. Cruciform finial to east gable end of nave, and east end of lower gable to chancel. Interior: 4 segmental pointed arches to north and south arcades. Repositioned Romanesque font in south aisle includes various biblical scenes represented by 13 figures and tree of life; intersecting arches; c1970 base. Vestry contains tablet by Boundy of Kendal commemorating 1886-87 rebuilding. Fragments of wall painting on west wall of nave, now unidentifiable.

Listing NGR: SD6951273260