Description

SD 97 49 CARLETON CHURCH ROAD

10/53 Church of St Mary

GV II

Parish church, 1859. By F H Pownall in a vigorous Gothic. Rock-faced stone and
stone slate roof. 5-bay nave with aisles, lower 2-bay chancel, west tower and
south porch. The detail is mostly Geometrical, with east window of 5 lights,
west window of 4 lights, and cinquefoil windows to the clerestorey. Cusped lights
to aisles, paired and in threes, and 2-light cusped bell-openings. Tower of 4
stages with trefoil-headed west doorway, diagonal buttress to northwest corner
and angle buttresses to southwest which embrace a square turret, splayed back
to an octagon above and ending in a pyramidal stone roof.
Interior: The nave roof is of arch-braced collars and the chancel has a wagon
roof. Arcades on columns and moulded chancel arch. Contemporary fittings except
plain Norman font; east window with Tree of Jesse by Clayton and Bell, and west
window with good Te Deum of c 1900.

Listing NGR: SD9736649821

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Mary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26603031

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