Description

THIXENDALE MAIN STREET SE 86 SW (south side)

7/104 Church of Saint Mary 1O.1O.66 GV II*

Church. 1868-1870 with vestry added 1875. By G E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes. Ashlar, plain tile roof. High Victorian Gothic. 3-bay nave with south aisle and north porch, 2-bay chancel with vestry to south. Plinth and string course throughout. West end: low apsidal baptistry with trefoil- headed window, flanked by stepped buttresses, with rose window above. To right: 2-light pointed window with cinquefoil tracery to aisle. Porch: moulded doorway with hood-mould with foliate stops. Trefoil-headed north door beneath moulded pointed arch. Hood-mould with foliate stops, carried on banded responds. Nave: 3-light pointed windows to north, single-light trefoil-headed windows to south. Bell-cote to east end of nave. Chancel: 2-light pointed windows beneath hood-moulds with foliate stops to north. To south: vestry with trefoil-headed door beneath hood-mould and small square- headed window to left. East end: 3-light window with trefoil tracery beneath hood-mould with foliate stops to chancel. Vestry: 3-light window with trefoil and cinquefoil tracery beneath hood-mould with foliate stops to left. 3 stepped trefoil-headed windows to right. Interior: 4-bay arcade on piers of quatrefoil section. Fine carved wooden screen of 1873. Font and pulpit with blind panelling. Stone reredos inlaid with green marble. Some fine stained glass, that to east window by Burliston and Grylls, most of the rest by Clayton and Bell. Hutchinson J and Joyce P, G E Street in East Yorkshire, 1981. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE8422161070

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