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St Mary

St Mary

Beeston

West Yorkshire

LEEDS SE23SE TOWN STREET, Beeston 714-1/10/533 (North side) 05/08/76 Church of St Mary II Anglican church.

Architectural Features

NW corner: C17 font with octagonal base, chamfered shaft, strapwork decoration to bowl

font in use dated 1886.

Shallow aisles, wall memorials pre-date rebuilding.

S wall: John Jackson of Cottingley Hall, 1695

brass plaque with inscription to Christopher Hodgson, 1642, Elizabeth Hodgson, 1648.

Pulpit given by Mary Scales of Armley Ridge, 1886: octagonal, arcaded panels, moulded and carved decoration.

Fragments of C16 heraldic stained glass in E window of S chapel which is the re-set window of the earlier chapel Chancel E window by Thomas Baillie, in memory of William Hill, d. 1841, for Harriet Hill, d. 1878.

In the vestry: C12 fragments of carved stone reconstructed as an archway, not seen.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the medieval chapel on this site had nave and chancel with a late C15 S chapel.

the medieval S chapel window was retained however, and built into the corresponding position in the new church