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St Mary

St Mary

Gainford

Durham

NZ 1616 - 1716 GAINFORD LOW GREEN (South side, off) 9/116 Church of St. Mary 14.9.66 I Parish church.

Architectural Features

Early C13 with C15 north vestry and later west stair turret

Porch has restored outer arch and contains 2 medieval stone benches and oak door under pointed roll-moulded arch of 2 orders

door has pair of possibly C13 iron C-hinges with elongated straps.

North porch has built-in grave slabs and similar medieval door and hinges.

Fittings: C13 circular font with Jacobean-style wood cover.

3 medieval brasses in chancel.

Elaborate wall monument, in western bay of south aisle, to John Middleton died 1709: tablet in segmental pedimented aedicule with Corinthian columns, cartouche above and draped apron below, with skull and flanking putti.