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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Beighton

South Yorkshire

SHEFFIELD SK48SW HIGH STREET, Beighton 784-1/11/801 (West side (off)) 28/06/73 Church of St Mary the Virgin II* Parish church.

Architectural Features

West end has an early C15 2-light window with label mould.

2 stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, 4 setoffs, string courses, gargoyles and crenellated parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles.

INTERIOR: chancel has a large Norman style arch, 1867, with zigzag bands and triple shafts.

South-east side has a restored early C14 piscina.

Nave has C14 2 bay arcades with octagonal piers and double chamfered moulded arches, and scissor braced roof.

Double chamfered early C14 tower arch with mask capitals and nailhead band and C19 Perpendicular wooden screen.

Fittings include stained glass windows, 1872 and 1888 and c1870, and C15 fragments in the aisle windows.

C19 benches, wooden pulpit and stone font with marble shafts.

Memorials include incised slab, 1480, to John Tynker,

brasses 1667 and 1753.