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Description: Church Of St Mary

Address: St Marys Church Burnley Road Todmorden OL14 7LA

Grade: II

Group detail: Burnley Road (south side)

Full description:
Church. 1770 with chancel added in 1896. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. West tower, nave, south porch and chancel. Tower may have earlier masonry to base of 3 plain stages defined by string course. 1st stage has pointed arched window with Gothic glazing and sash. Hoodmould with carved head terminations. 2nd stage has small arched light to each face with semi-circular arched belfry window with collonnettes set within a recess. 3rd stage is embattled and has clock face. Weather-vane. 5-bay nave 2 tiers of windows in the same plane. A B C C B A. Outer bays have venetian windows with raised impost and keystone. 2 central bays have tall semi-circular arched windows with impost and keystone flanked by doorways with rusticated surround and false voussoirs and cornice. The left door covered by gabled porch with semi-circular arched doorway with impost and keystone (late C19). The right door blocked to form window. Over doors, semi circular arched window with impost and keystone with stepped glazing. Quoins, cornice. North side of nave has 5 bays of 3-light double chamfered mullioned windows. Gothic Revival Chancel with gabled transeptal chapel with circular window tracery. Diagonal buttresses to east gable. Tall east window with pointed arch and pannel tracery. Interior: Barn-like nave with king-post roof with rough overlapping purlins. West gallery with panelled pews and fine oak balustrade, supported on 2 stone columns. Loosely attached (to appearance) is the chancel. Organ recess. 2-bay hammer-beam roof. Screen in free Gothic is a War Memorial. The east window, showing the Crucifixion, is a memorial to John Fielden of Dobroyd and is by Kempe. Bell of 1603 and clock installed in tower in 1860. Originally a chapel-of-ease of St. Chad's Church Rochdale, built on land given by the Radcliffe family c1476, of nearby Todmorden Hall (q.v.). N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979), p.521.