Description

INGLETON MAIN STREET
SD 6873-6973
(west side)
14/12 Church of St Mary
the Virgin
20.2.58
GV II*
Parish church. 1886-87 by C E Tate, except C15 west tower. Snecked and dressed
stone, slate roof, rubble to tower. South entrance porch, 3 stage west tower,
5 bay nave and aisles, bay chancel, north vestry. Steeply pitched roof to
porch, moulded segmental pointed arch, diagonal buttresses. Pointed entrance
arch, plank doors and strap hinges. Tower, west pointed entrance with deeply
chamfered surround, hoodmould, plank door. Tall 3-light window with c1887 mullions
hoodmould. 2-light louvred window with trefoil heads to bell stage. Diagonal
buttresses, string course to base of embattled parapet with 4 finials. Tall
south entrance has corbelled and deeply chamfered pointed arch, plank doors.
Four 3-light Perpendicular style windows to south aisle. 5 pairs of lancet
windows with cusped heads to clerestory; continuous hoodmould. Corbel table.
2-lights and single-light south windows to chancel with cusped heads; foliate
stops to hoodmould. Blind arcading to corbel table. 3-light east window with
reticulated tracery, head stops to hoodmould. Cruciform finial to east gable
end of nave, and east end of lower gable to chancel. Interior: 4 segmental
pointed arches to north and south arcades. Repositioned Romanesque font in
south aisle includes various biblical scenes represented by 13 figures and tree
of life; intersecting arches; c1970 base. Vestry contains tablet by Boundy
of Kendal commemorating 1886-87 rebuilding. Fragments of wall painting on west
wall of nave, now unidentifiable.

Listing NGR: SD6951273260

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535107

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