St Mary

Roofs are clay tiles with crested ridge tiles.

The north chapel (formerly vestry) has a pointed east window and Norman-style north doorway which, although it is said to incorporate masonry from the dismantled chancel arch, appears to be entirely C19 work.

Inside, the C12 south door has a single order of shafts with scalloped capitals, arch with chevrons, lozenge frieze to the label and a cable moulding at the base of the now blank tympanum.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The font of 1871 has an octagonal bowl and stem of 4 marble shafts with stiff-leaf capitals.

The polygonal pulpit is of alabaster with blind panelling, on a painted stone base.

In the north aisle are 2 windows with stained glass by Hardman and a window by Powell & Sons.

The crucifixion east window is by Walker J. Pearce HISTORY: The church retains some re-sited C12

C14 fabric but is mainly the product of several phases of enlargement in the C19 and C20.

In 1871 the church was restored and enlarged, by rebuilding the nave south wall, adding a north aisle, north vestry and bell turret, and dismantling the C12 chancel arch.

The south aisle was added in 1908, at which time the original C12 south doorway

C14 south porch were dismantled and rebuilt.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Mary, Boulton, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * The church is of particular interest for the survival of a good C12 doorway,

a rare C14 porch. * The rest of the church is considerably altered but is still of interest.