Description

BUXTON

SK0572NE DALE ROAD
616-1/6/31 (South side)
Church of St Mary the Virgin

II

Church. 1914-1915. By P Currey and CC Thompson. Random rubble
gritstone, with ashlar gritstone dressings. Steep Westmorland
slate roofs with eyebrow dormers.
STYLE: Arts and Crafts.
PLAN: nave, with low north and south aisles, north and south
porches, transepts, chancel and north and south vestries.
EXTERIOR: west end has 4 tall graduated lancets, with
relieving arch over central two, and clasping corner
buttresses.
Nave has two 3-light mullion aisle windows divided by
prominent buttresses with above two 2-light eye-brow dormer
windows. To west porches are topped with half-hipped roofs
with deeply recessed pointed arched doorways with double doors
and large iron hinges.
Transepts each have a tall double lancet with oval window in
pointed relieving arch and angle buttresses. Crossing topped
with small square louvred bell lantern with pyramidal hipped
roof.
Chancel has 3 graduated lancets within a single pointed
relieving arch with hoodmould. Below a lean-to passage with 2
single lancets linking gabled vestries at either side.
Vestries project to east on both sides, both with 3 graduated
lancets.
All window openings have exterior ironwork.
INTERIOR: white washed apart from grit stone dressings. Nave
of 3 bays with coursed masonry piers. Aisle windows in splayed
and shaped moulded surrounds. Pointed chancel arch, flanked by
round headed arches. Paired rafters to roof.
FITTINGS: good contemporary fittings. They include carved
angels to corbels supporting rood beam to chancel arch, carved
chancel screen, carved wooden pulpit on stone base (1913), and
stone octagonal font with carved wooden cover.
STAINED GLASS: stained glass with biblical themes to chancel
and transepts. Nave has simple leaded rectangular lights with
stained diamond panes.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117; Howard W: The Church of St.
Mary the Virgin, Buxton.: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SK0590272958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550500

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)