Description

SE 43 SW GARFORTH CHURCH LANE LS25 Garforth

3/7 Church of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin

GV II

Church. 1844, by George Fowler Jones. Dressed magnesian limestone, slate roof. Cruciform plan: nave with north and south aisles, full-height transepts, chancel, and crossing tower with broach spire. Early English style, with tall chamfered lancets and corbel table. Buttressed 3-bay nave and 2-bay aisles with doorways to 1st bay of aisles, that on the south side under a shallow gabled porch which has a deeply-recessed outer arch moulded in 2 orders, with clustered shafts and hoodmould with carved stops, a similar inner doorway with moulded surround and large double doors with ornamental strap hinges; and that on the north side with set-in shafts and hoodmould. West bay of nave has single lancet on each side, aisles have coupled lancets. West gable has stepped triple window, the centre of 2 lights with a quatrefoil in the head and the outer blind, with linked hoodmoulds, and gable coping with kneelers and an apex cross. Transepts have coupled lancets in the sides and 2-light windows in the gables, with hoodmoulds. Two-bay chancel has lancets in the sides, and stepped triple lancet east window. Crossing tower has weathering to set-back belfry stage, a panel in each side of this headed by a Lombard frieze and containing a 2- light belfry window with a hoodmould, and a clock face fixed to the mullion between the lights, a moulded cornice, and an octagonal spire with lucarnes in the cardinal sides. Roofs of nave, transepts, and chancel swept over the eaves.

Interior: short 3-bay arcades of cylindrical columns supporting 2-centred arches with figured stops; composite crossing piers with clustered shafts; arch-braced collar-truss roof.

Listing NGR: SE4101733106

External Links

• St. Mary's Church, Garforth at Wikipedia
• St. Mary's Church, Garforth official website
• Wikidata Q24705037

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