Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Clumber Park

Heritage listing

Details SK 67 SW WORKSOP CLUMBER LANE 5/55 Church of St. Mary the 13.2.67 Virgin (Clumber Park) G.V. I Estate chapel. 1886-89. By Bodley and Garner for the seventh Duke of Newcastle. Fourteenth Century decorated Revival style. Polychromatic Steetley and Runcorn sandstone ashlar with lead roofs. Chamfered and moulded plinth, gabled buttresses, dentillated sill band, moulded string courses, coped and crenellated parapets, windows and doors with hood moulds, shouldered coped gables with crosses. Gargoyles and carved figures in niches. Nave, chancel, crossing and tower, north transept and baptistry, vestries, north tower, lady chapel, south transept and chapel. 4 bay buttressed nave has 4 double lancets on each side. West door has moulded ogee head with vine motif. Above, triple lancet with intersecting tracery and flanking niches. Higher, buttressed chancel, 4 bays, has 4 double and triple lancets with reticulated tracery. Pinnacled east end has traceried panel and above, 5 light lancet. Corner buttressed crossing tower, 2 stages, has above, paired double lancet bell opening on each side. Above again, 4 crocketted pinnacles linked by flying buttresses to pierced octagonal corona. Above, spire with lucarnes. North transept has, to left, stair turret, to right, extruded corner with doorway and above, double lancet. Vestry has single lancet. 2 stage north tower has paired lancet and above, 3 lancets. Single storey clergy vestry has 2 lancets each side. Buttressed single storey lady chapel has 3 lancets. South transept has moulded doorway, and to left, extruded corner with 2 small lancets. Above, triple lancet with flanking pinnacled niches. Nave has stone benches, blind arcade with moulded arches, sill band, wall passage, clerestorey openings with shafts and stained glass; we

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.