Church Of St Mary The Virgin

A 170 NORTH YORKSHIRE RYEDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL 5340 SE 88 SE EBBERSTON (north side, off) 10/12 Church of Saint Mary the Virgin (Previously listed as 'Church of St Mary') 10.11.53 - II* Church. C12 nave and chancel, chancel extended C13; north aisle c1200; tower probably C14; reroofed 1797; porch, and south side of nave and chancel rebuilt and restored 1870-76, by Ewan Christian. Dressed sandstone with slate roof. West tower; nave with 3-bay north aisle; south porch; chancel. 2-stage, embattled tower has 2-light louvred bell openings with trefoil heads beneath pointed hood-moulds to all faces except the north, which has a single round-headed light. Similar opening to lower stage of west face. Gabled porch contains a round-arched doorway recessed in two orders, of which the outer is roll-moulded and has renewed spiral shafts, one with the remains of an original scalloped capital. C12 ironwork including a dove with an olive twig has been re-used on a later door. To left of porch is a blocked former chapel arch containing a C19 2-light foiled window. Single lights flank the porch while the window to the right contains renewed foiled tracery in original square-headed opening. Chancel contains rebuilt single light windows and priest's door all beneath pointed hood-moulds. On the north side, C12 and C13 round-headed lights, one with arch stone bearing incised decoration. North aisle windows of three intersecting lights beneath a round arch springing from carved head corbels. Re-used stones carved with a sword and a floreated cross, and two grotesque heads from an earlier corbel table. At the east end, two dwarf buttresses flank a 2-light Geometric traceried window in a quoined surround. Interior: 3-bay arcade of cylindrical piers and pointed arches of two chamfered orders. Piers have octagonal abaci and one has a capital of two tiers of waterleaf. Bases have foliage spur ornament and rest on square plinths. C19 rebuilt pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders springs from the side walls. Probable C12 tub font on a later moulded stem with octagonal base. Grotesque head on north aisle wall.

Listing NGR: SE8918783316