Description

TL 97 NE MARKET WESTON CHURCH ROAD

1/55 Church of St. Mary 14.7.55 - II*

Parish Church. C14; restored 1846-7 by Cottingham, and again in 1888-9. Nave, chancel, south porch and west tower: mainly in rubble flint with plain freestone dressings; high C19 bases of black knapped flint to walls of nave and porch; nave, much restored, faced in kidney flints. Plaintiled roofs with high, plain parapets. Plain stone-faced buttresses to nave; diagonal buttresses to-east end of nave and chancel. High, 2-light windows to nave with flowing tracery: the north-east window is blocked, apart from the head; the north-west window has fragments of medieval glass in the head. 2-light C19 windows to chancel, with a form of cusped Y-tracery; 3-light east window with flowing tracery, and C19 stained glass in the head. All the windows in the church have diamond-leaded panes and some crown glass. C15 south porch: open timber roof with ovolo-moulded main beam; south face with rectangular flushwork panels of black knapped flint; a canopied niche above the doorway, and a trefoil-headed canopied niche to each side. The south door has reused iron fittings, including C17 hinges, and a canopied niche above with a reinstated figure of the Virgin and Child. Tower in 5 stages, with 2 intermediate string-courses and a plain parapet of black knapped flint. Stair turret on the south side, with a conical, stone-tiled roof. A 2-light window with curvilinear tracery to each face of the top stage. The line of a higher, earlier roof can be seen on the east face. Victorianised interior to nave and chancel, all fittings dating from one or other of the C19 restorations. A very plain double hammerbeam roof to nave, the upper hammerbeams supporting arched braces which meet in a central pendant below the collar. Simple pierced and dentilled cornice. Some ovolo-moulding to main timbers. The roof, said to be C19, could well be C17, and the 6-bay single-hammerbeam roof to the nave, in similar style, could be of the same date, reused. Hanoverian arms, painted and framed, on the north wall of nave.

Listing NGR: TL9903878105

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