Description

NZ 2115 PIERCEBRIDGE THE GREEN (East side) 17/155 Church of St.Mary ---- Church of St. 20/3/67 GV II Parish church. 1873 by Cory and Ferguson. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; purple slate roof. Projecting west bellcote with spirelet; aisleless nave; chancel with south vestry. Early English style. 2 buttresses with offsets, on west end of nave, support corbelled-out bellcote with trefoil-headed bell openings under pointed hoodmoulds. Small projecting bay, between buttresses, with lancet and pent roof. Bellcote has steep pyramidal spirelet with 2 rows of fish-scale tiles. 3-bay buttressed nave. South side: projecting porch bay at west has double- chamfered pointed archway; 2 lancets and a pair of lancets to east. Similar windows on north side. Taller and narrower, buttressed 2-bay chancel: single lancets on north and south; 3 stepped lancets on angle-buttressed east end. Steeply-pitched continuous roof, over nave and chancel, has coped gables. Gabled vestry: 2-light plate-tracery window on south; pointed doorway on west return. Extruded bay on west of vestry, has pointed doorway and pent roof. Plain, plastered interior. Iron altar rails with scrollwork and foliage. Double-chamfered, pointed arch and shouldered doorway into vestry. Wagon roofs in nave and chancel.

Listing NGR: NZ2103815758

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