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St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers 
West end of St Mary's Church, Yealand ConyersLocation in Lancashire
St Mary's Church, Yealand ConyersCoordinates: 54°09′38″N 2°45′41″W / 54.1605°N 2.7614°W OS grid reference SD 504 741 Location Yealand Conyers, Lancashire Country England Denomination Roman Catholic Website St Mary, Yealand Conyers History Founder(s) Richard Gillow Dedication Saint Mary Architecture Architect(s) E. G. Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1852 Specifications Materials Limestone, slate roof Administration Diocese Lancaster Clergy Priest(s) Canon John X. Gibson St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers, is in the village of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic church in the diocese of Lancaster, and is linked with the churches of St Mary of the Angels, Bolton-le-Sands, and Our Lady of Lourdes, Carnforth.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2] It stands at the south end of the village.[3]
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History
The church was built in 1852 for Richard Gillow of nearby Leighton Hall, and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley.[4] In 2009 the parish was formally linked with the Roman Catholic parishes of Carnforth and Bolton-le-Sands.[5]
Architecture
Exterior
St Mary's is constructed in limestone and has a steep slate-covered roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave, a chancel at a lower level, and a north porch. At the west end is a projecting bay with a central buttress. On each side of the buttress is a lancet window. The bay is surmounted by a double gabled bellcote. There are further lancet windows around the church, the east end having three stepped lancets. At the corners of the church are diagonal buttresses. Above the porch doorway is the carving of the Virgin Mary in a sandstone niche.[2]
Interior
The nave has a scissor-braced roof, and the roof of the chancel is arch-braced. The reredos is elaborately carved. The altar is supported by marble columns, and the altar rail is in alabaster with green marble columns. The church contains a familt pew for the Gillows at the northwest end, and elsewhere are box pews carved with poppyheads. Only the east window contains stained glass. Also in the church are brasses in memory of members of the Gillow family.[4] The authors of the volume in the Buildings of England series comment that the church was intended to outdo the Anglican church in the village "in size, prominence and quality".[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
References
- ^ A Directory of our Churches & Chapels, Diocese of Lancaster, http://www.lancasterdiocese.org.uk/Groups/154846/The_Diocese_of/People_and_Places/Churches/Churches.aspx, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ a b "Church of St Mary, Yealand Conyers", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1147015, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ Yealand Conyers, Streetmap, http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/350288_474141_120, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 716, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ St Mary, Yealand Conyers, Lancaster Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees, http://www.ololcarnforth.org.uk/yealand.htm, retrieved 21 May 2011
Categories:- Roman Catholic churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1852
- 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
- E. G. Paley buildings
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