Description

SE 22 SW BATLEY MB CROSS BANK ROAD
BATLEY

4/15 Church of St Mary

II

Gothic Revival Church. 1870. Dressed stone. Pitched slate roof.
4-bay buttressed nave with porch to right and apsidal baptistry to
left. Transepts. Nave windows are 2-light with stained glass and
cusped heads with single quatrefoil over. Each bay has relieving
arch. The front of the church is apsidal. The rear elevation, to
the road, has central triple group of very tall lights with sexfoil
in head. To each side is 2-light similar window with quatrefoil
in head. Central doorway with pointed arch and cambered head.

Plain but colourful interior. The apsidal chancel is treated as a
blind arcade filled with mosaic, above which are 9 paired 2-light
stained glass clerestory windows. Chancel arch with 2 carved figures.
Chapels to left and right separated by 2 bay arcade. Later gallery
to rear below which is glass screen forming vestibule. Arched braced
hammer beam roof.

Listing NGR: SE2371924580

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479267

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