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St Mary

St Mary

Whitley

South Yorkshire

Gargoyles to string course beneath embattled parapet with 8 pinnacles.

C13C16C17STAINED GLASSCARVINGSFONTROOD SCREENMONUMENTGARGOYLESMEDIEVAL

Architectural Features

C13

Interior: fragment of C13 arch re-erected within porch.

C17FONT

Font: octagonal on moulded plinth, bears date 1662, reworked.

ROOD SCREEN

Rood screen with traceried 2-light divisions, restored coving.

ROOD SCREEN

Stalls attached to rood screen have 2 misericords with heads, heads also carved on arms.

CARVINGS

Good carved figures on bench ends in the north chapel.

C16

A south chapel bench end bears the date 1564.

C17MONUMENT

Also in the south chapel, monument to Sir Richard Scott, 1640 by William Wright, restored 1749: Recumbent figure behind 2-bay arcade with taller central column, all set within wrought iron enclosure.

Medieval priory, dating back to at least 1273 and originally attached to the Benedictine St Wadrille's Abbey in Normandy. The priory was extensively altered in 1866 and what can be seen here is the chapel (right), the main priory block (centre-right) and the later Ecclesfield Hall on the left.
MEDIEVALSTAINED GLASS

Medieval glass in bay 1 of north aisle otherwise good Victorian work detailed in Pevsner, Buildings of England : Yorkshire The West Riding, 1967 ed. p190.

Medieval priory, dating back to at least 1273 and originally attached to the Benedictine St Wadrille's Abbey in Normandy. The priory was extensively altered in 1866 and what can be seen here is the chapel (right), the main priory block (centre-right) and the later Ecclesfield Hall on the left.

© Jonathan Clitheroe