Description

SD 64 SW CHIPPING WINDY STREET

4/95 Church of St. Mary

GV II

Roman Catholic. Church, 1827. Squared, punched ashlar with slate roof. North-west and
south-east walls of 5 bays each, having tall windows with plain stone
surrounds, semi-circular heads with keystones, impost band and sill band.
South-west wall blank except for doorway with architrave and moulded
cornice. Beneath the cornice is an inscription and date, 1827. Interior.
Gallery with organ at southern end, supported on slim iron columns. The
one-bay chancel is divided from the nave by a screen with 4 giant attached
marbled Corinthian columns with pedestals and an elaborately decorated
frieze and cornice. The central wide arch to the chancel is flanked by
two smaller arches with doors set within them, in a triumphal arch motif.
The rear wall of the chancel has stencilled decoration, with 2 more
Corinthian attached columns and 2 quarter-columns.

Listing NGR: SD6234543257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q59823312

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)