St Mary's Church, Dunsforth

St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Lower Dunsforth, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

There was a Mediaeval church in Dunsforth, in the Romanesque style. It was demolished in 1860, and a new church was designed by James Mallinson and Thomas Healey and completed the following year. It incorporated parts of the doorway from the original church, along with a capital and a broken font. The building was grade II listed in 1988.^[1]^[2]

The church is in sandstone with stone slate roofs. It consists of a nave, a lower chancel with a north organ chamber and vestry, and a southwest steeple. The steeple has a tower with three stages, buttresses, and a porch with a pointed arch and a double-chamfered surround and a hood mould. To the west is a stair tower, the bottom stage contains a cusped lancet window, and above are rectangular lights, clock faces with hood moulds, paired bell openings, a chamfered string course, and a band of trefoil tracery, and the tower is surmounted by a broach spire with a wrought iron weathervane.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "St Mary, Dunsforth or Lower Dunsforth, Yorkshire, West Riding". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1150321)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.