Architectural Features
porch C13
nave and aisles early C14
restored in the C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations.
EXTERIOR: the church is situated within a loop of the River Eden at the foot of the medieval street linking the church and the castle.
All window and door openings have hood moulds with label stops, and the glass is mostly leaded.
it has segmental-headed windows of three trefoiled lights with pierced spandrels above the side lights alternating with buttresses, one of which on the north aisle retains a pinnacle and three on the south aisle retain stumps of others and three carved gargoyles in animal form.
The three-stage west tower has thick walls of C12 masonry to its lower and mid sections, and there is a string course to the south and west elevations
The upper embattled stage is of large, ashlar blocks with paired square-headed belfry windows of two trefoiled lights to each face and the partial remains of a string course, with stubs of gargoyles to the corners.
There are late-C17 clock faces to the south and east walls, a shoulder-arched C19 doorway to the south wall and a C19 window in west wall.
INTERIOR: there are whitewashed walls and stone flagged floors throughout, with encaustic tiles to the raised sanctuary floor.
There are half-arches either side of the chancel arch, defining the north and south chapels which have exposed roof timbers: a rafter in the south chapel is inscribed: 'ANN CONNTESSE OF PEMBROKE IN ANO 1655 REPAIRED ALL THIS BVILDING' and a rafter in the north chapel records her initials and the date.
The five-bay nave has early-C14 north and south arcades which are double-chamfered and supported on quatrefoil piers, the foils more than semi-circular and with fillets.
The tower arch at the west end is off-centre and also of early-C14 date, as is the west bay of the south aisle.
The tower was not inspected but is understood to retain medieval fabric and six bells.
The south aisle has a lean-to timber roof supported on two sets of corbels of C16
C17 date.
The south porch has stone benches to each side and a C17 timber roof structure comprising three plain chamfered and cambered tie beams and short wall posts carried on stone corbels.
Those to the western arches are thought to be C18 and that to the eastern arch of the south arcade is at least C16
There is an octagonal C19 font of Frosterly Marble and an octagonal C19 iron-worked pulpit and an oak-eagle lecture.
C19 box pews fill the nave and aisles, and at the front on the north side of the nave are the 'Corporation Pew' and the 'Castle Pew' dating from about 1720, each with a carved panel with a coat of arms and its supporters.
In the nave above the east chancel arch is a painted board of C17 or C18 date containing the Royal Coat of Arms of Charles II.
All of the stained glass is C19 apart from two fragments of early stained glass in the north chancel aisle east wall.
MONUMENTS: Lady Anne Clifford's altar tomb and reredos in black and white marble is situated against the north wall of the north chapel.