Description

SD 57 SW YEALAND CONYERS YEALAND ROAD (EAST SIDE)

4/276 Church of St Mary

II

Roman Catholic Church, 1852, by Paley. Squared limestone with limestone
dressings and steep slate roof. Comprises a nave, a lower chancel and a
north porch. North nave wall has 4 windows of plate tracery, each having
2 cusped lancets and a trefoil. Chancel wall has 4 lancets with hoods. East
wall has diagonal buttresses and 3 stepped lancets with hoods. Porch has a
deeply moulded doorway with a statue of the Virgin above in a carved sand-
stone niche. The west wall has diagonal buttresses and a central bay project-
ing with offsets, with a central buttress and 2 tall cusped lights. This
central bay is terminated by 2 gabled bell openings. The south nave wall
has 5 cusped lancets. Interior. 5-bay nave has open timber roof with long
scissor braces, ashlaring and side purlins. Chancel arch is of moulded sand-
stone, springing from columns carried on foliated corbels.

Listing NGR: SD5037774128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers at Wikipedia
• St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers official website
• Wikidata Q7594463

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