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Saint Mary

Saint Mary

Masham

North Yorkshire

C12, late C14, C16 and C19.

Architectural Features

4-stage tower: C12

Fourth stage: late C14, octagonal with broaches with offset diagonal buttresses above.

Board west door in C12 doorway with 2 orders of colonnettes, scalloped capitals, and arch with rolls.

First bay has vaulted C16 porch: arched doorway with hood-mould

Clerestory: late C14.

Chancel: C14, 3 bays with offset angle buttresses.

Interior: single-step C12 tower arch on plain imposts.

Above chancel arch is late C18 - early C19 painting in Gothick frame with gilded panels in spandrels of an angel with scroll on clouds, in style of Reynolds.

Fine monument to Sir Marmaduke Wyvill with his wife of Low Burton Hall, d1613: alabaster

Brass memorial plate to Christopher Kay d1689, and Jane Nichollson, d1690.

Monument to Abstrupus Danby 1737