Church Of St Mary, Causeway Bridge, And Gates

The Church of St. Mary is a 13th-century church located at Causeway Bridge, featuring random rubble construction and stone slate roofs with coped verges. It has a gabled bellcote at the west end, a buttressed nave and chancel, and an early 19th-century north chapel with buttresses. The church was rebuilt by Sir George Gilbert Scott for Rev. W. A. Duckworth, with supervision by J. O. Scott in 1878. The architectural style is predominantly Decorated, characterized by a simple exterior with two and three-light windows that have circle-in-bar tracery.

A notable exterior feature is the priest's door, which has a hollow moulded stone surround with a pointed five-cusped head and a pointed trefoil above it. Inside, the church has tile floors, and the north chapel is accessed through a low cusped archway that previously led to a tomb recess. The chancel is richly decorated, featuring a pointed trefoiled piscina on the south side and a trefoiled aumbry on the north side, which includes a seated figure of Christ. Stone figures of a king and queen flank the altar, while small corbel figures of a monk and a nun are positioned to hold the former lantern veil.

The church contains a significant amount of stained glass from the mid-15th and early 16th centuries, including an east window with a tonsured figure flanked by angels, north and south chancel windows depicting eight figures of the apostles with accompanying texts, and a window above the priest's door representing the Holy Trinity. The south window of the nave features a winged ox and a winged lion, representing St. Mark and St. Luke, while the west window includes angels and figures, with St. Michael in the tracery lights.

Additional interior features include a Jacobean pulpit and an early 14th-century circular font adorned with leaf decoration and small seated figures. The church is situated on an island created by the upper ornamental lake of Orchardlea Park and is accessed via a rubble bridge with a single semi-circular arch and wrought iron handrails, along with 19th-century wrought iron railed gates at each end.