Description

NZ 30 SE APPLETON WISKE HIGH STREET (west side, off)

7/4 Church of St Mary 31.3.70 - II Church. Cl2 origins, chancel probably C16, major alteration 1875. Ashlar, coursed squared stone; graduated stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. Nave with south porch, lower chancel with north vestry. Nave: 2 bays. To west offset diagonal buttress. Rough cast plain gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway. To right a C19 two-light pointed-arched window with cusped tracery and hoodmould, 2 similar to north side. C19 three-light pointed west window. Stone copings, gabled offset bellcote with pointed-arched opening to west. Chancel: to left a blocked priests doorway with 4-centred arched head. To right a twin lancet C16 window. 3-light east window with pointed- arched, chamfered lights below flat head. Stone coping. C20 north vestry with mullioned windows. Interior: chancel arch: C12. 2 orders of nook- shafts, one decorated by lozenges with infillings including a figure of a man. Capitals, one with scallops and a dragon, another with free volutes and scrolls.

Listing NGR: NZ3899104665

External Links

• Church of St Mary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26581708

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