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St Mary the Less

St Mary The Less

Crossgate

Durham

C12 rebuilt 1846-7 by Pickering, incorporating some original material.

Architectural Features

Neo-Norman style.

Memorial slabs built into south wall under first window to right of porch: (Frosterley marble) to Dorothy and Frances Carnaby and to right of that, Joan Lever wife of Cuthbert Interior: plaster above-boarded dado, which has battlemented top, in nave

chancel plaster above C17 carved panelling which has cherubs' heads, Gothic tracery and pinnacles.

Painted wood memorial panels to members of Butler family died 1708 and 1710

and to John Butler - 'a zealous protestant' - died 1597.

Large dark funeral hatchment over chancel arch.

Gothic memorial at west end to Martin Dunn, mayor, died 1838.