Church of St Mary, Selattyn

Heritage listing

Details SJ 23 SE 4/45 SELATTYN AND GOBOWEN CP SELATTYN Church of St Mary 8.10.59 GV I Parish church. C13 nave and chancel, tower of 1703-1704, north transept of 1821, south transept of 1828 (shortened 1892); north aisle and restoration by C. Hodgson Fowler of Durham in 1892. Uncoursed and roughly coursed gritstone and conglomerate rubble with ashlar dressings; late C19 machine tile roofs. Nave and chancel in one; west tower; transepts; north aisle and south porch. Tower. Datestone 1704 on south side. Three stages with embattled parapet and corner pinnacles; plinth and multi-stepped diagonal buttresses; C18 brass weathercock to north-west corner. Belfry has windows of two lights with shouldered round-headed arches, Anglo-Saxon in appearance and possibly reused from an earlier tower; similar window to second stage on south. C19 west window. Nave: south side has square-headed window of three trefoil- headed lights, probably late C15, to east of doorway. Window to right also of three lights but with right light now cut by transept, has more rounded cusping and is probably C16; infilled narrow round-headed doorway beneath of indeterminate but presumably earlier date as cut by cill of window. Timber framed porch on sandstone ashlar walls erected 1892 in memory of Rowland Jones Venables and his wife, Harriet; C13 single-chamfered pointed south doorway. South transept: has late C19 Perpendicular-style window to gable and pointed doorway of same date in east wall. Chancel: south side has restored C17 square-headed window of three cusped lights; C19 Perpendicular-style east window with contemporary roundel above. North transept: shortened by the erection of the north aisle in 1892 has window of three lights with intersecting tracery and cusped openings below to gable; square-head

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.