Church of St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton

Heritage listing

Details STEEPLE ASHTON CHURCH STREET ST 95 NW (off north side) 7/215 Church of St Mary the Virgin 11.9.68 GV I Anglican parish church. Late C15, some rebuilding 1670, chancel rebuilt 1853 by Clutton. Limestone ashlar, lead roofs. Plan: west tower, nave with aisles and north and south porches, chancel with chapels. Perpendicular. Two-storey south porch with Tudor- arched doorway with hoodmould, diagonal buttresses, carried up to crocketed pinnacles, 2-light cusped square-headed first floor window, gabled parapet with string courses, large incised sundial over door. South aisle to left has half a 4-light Tudor-arched window, right half taken up by polygonal stair turret to porch, elaborate aisle and nave buttresses with panelled and crocketed pinnacles, aisle and chapel to right of porch has four 4-light windows, square moulded doorway. Four-bay clerestory with 4-light windows, both aisle and nave roofs have richly-carved battlemented parapets, string courses with large gargoyles, flying buttresses to east corners of nave, 4-light windows to east end of aisles. Chancel has 1850s five-light east window with Perpendicular tracery, north side has C19 two-light Perpendicular-style window. North aisle has blocked east window, four 4-light Perpendicular windows to left of single-storey porch with blocked doorway and 1980s inserted window, two 4-light windows to right, 4-bay clerestory, same windows, pinnacles and roof detail as south side. Four-stage tower with flanking bays, each with 4-light window to north and south, 2-light to west ends, polygonal stair turrets, tower has Tudor-arched moulded west doorway, 4-light window over, fine canopied image niches, 3-light windows to second, third and fourth stages, blocked to lower but with Somerset-type stone louvres to bellstage, s

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.