Church of St Mary Entrance Steps and Attached Handrail

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GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE NZ824005 20/103 Church of St.Mary, entrance steps and 6.10.69 attached handrail GV II* Church. Dated 1894-96. By W.H.Brierley. Hammered sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings. Stone slate roof. 5-bay nave and south porch; choir, south organ chamber and vestry beneath central tower; chancel. Church raised on high, slightly battered, chamfered plinth. West end: two 2-light Geometrical windows beneath pointed hoodmoulds flank gabled buttress. Nave: gabled south porch has pointed roll-moulded opening, approached by steps with wrought iron handrail, and scrolly boot- scrapers at bottom. Panelled south door in porch. Two square-headed windows of 3 trefoil-headed lights east of porch. Similar windows in nave north side, two towards west end separated by offset buttress, and one towards eastern end. Tower: squat, 3-stages, with angle buttresses and south-west vice. Lean-to vestry obscures lowest stage to south, and has panelled door in shallow pointed-arched doorway. Square-headed window of 3 round-headed lights to east of door, and similar window in west return, beside small staircase window. Lowest stage of tower north side has round-headed window of 3 lights with stripped Perpendicular tracery and rolled hoodmould. Second stage is pierced to north and south by rect- angular chamfered lights. Single belfry openings to north and south, two to east and west. Openings are shallow pointed and contain recessed paired louvred lights with scalloped heads. Clock faces to north and south, beneath plain parapet with roll-moulded coping, stepped up at each corner. Pennant weathervane dated 1896. Several waterspouts project from west face. Chancel: single window similar to those in west end, in south side only. East window: five cusped pointed lights recessed in segment- arched opening. Foundation stone set in plinth reads: To the Glory of God and the Holy Memory of S. Mary this stone was laid on July 5 1894 by M.D.McEacharn Esq. Window surrounds throughout are double-chamfered, and all openings are quoined. Coped and roll-moulded gable ends and chancel gable cross. Interior. Splayed, segment-arched nave window openings. Double- chamfered, round tower arch on half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals. C11/C12 bowl font, preserved from a demolished church at Egton, with timber cover of volutes clustered around an octagonal column, dated 1903. Altar slab, preserved on north side of sanctuary, thought to survive from the C12 Hermitage Chapel of St.Mary of Godesland, now demolished. C17 half-octagonal pulpit with panels carved with flowers and foliage. Choir fittings by Brierley. Other fittings, notably the linenfold-panelled altar and reredos, by Robert Thompson of Kilburn. Original brass candelabrum in Choir. Boarded, barreled roof on timber ribs with braced collars and upper queen struts. Porch contains the grave slab of Elizabeth Sleightholme, d.1695. C.Carus, Walter Henry Brierley, 1862-1926, unpublished Diploma in Conservation Studies dissertation, University of York: Hollings, A, Goathland, The Story of a Moorland Village: Nuttgens, P, Brierley in Yorkshire: Architectural Review, Vol.16, 1904: Building News, Vol.LXVII, 1894.

Listing NGR: NZ8277600700

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Sources

Books and journals
Hollings, A, Goathland The Story of a Moorland Village, (1971)
Nuttgens, P, Brierley in Yorkshire The Architecture of the Turn of The Century, (1984)
Building News in Building News, Vol. 67, ()
Architectural Review in Architectural Review, Vol. 16, (1904)

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