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St Mary

St Mary

Colton

West Yorkshire

C15, chancel rebuilt 1901 by GF Bodley

Architectural Features

West tower with diagonal buttresses embattled parapet on corbels and carved obelisk pinnacles, 2-light belfry, squat lead-clad spire.

MONUMENTS: Sir Robert Scargill, d. 1531-2 and wife, d. 1546-7: tomb chest with mourners and recumbent alabaster effigies above.

Viscount Irwin of Temple Newsam, d. 1688 and wife, d. 1746, formerly with tomb chest, fine effigies, the Viscount semi-reclining, his wife originally on his left, now at his head, his daughter who died aged 2, originally on his right, now on his left

pilasters and segmental pediment against wall as background by John van Nost erected in 1697, tomb chest removed (probably from chancel) and figures re-grouped against the S aisle wall c1970.

Lord William Gordon by Henry Westmacott 1824, tablet with relief figure in Highland dress.

The chancel S chapel was founded as a chantry in 1448-49. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (revised Radcliffe): Yorkshire, The West Riding: London: 1967-: 350, 642).