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St Mary

St Mary

Nun Monkton

North Yorkshire

Late C12 - early C13 with restoration and rebuilding of east end and vestry 1873 by J H Walton, and stained glass by Morris and Company.

Architectural Features

Limestone ashlar, plain tile roof.

that to extreme right contains weathered, headless figure.

Memorial brasses to south wall of chancel to George Payler, died 1689 and Elizabeth Payler died 1724/25

George Payler died 1678 and Lady Maria Carey died 1679

Bethia Darcie, died 1671.

Elaborate font with polished coloured marble shafts and inlay, and wrought-iron altar rails, both of 1873 restoration.

Stained glass in east window probably from designs by Sir Edward Burne- Jones, considered by Pevsner to be the finest in the West Riding.