St Mary's Anglican Church, Carlton

St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Carlton, a village near Selby in North Yorkshire, in England.

The first church in Carlton was a wooden chapel of ease to St Laurence's Church, Snaith, built in 1379. In 1861, Carlton was granted its own parish, and work commenced on a new building, completed in 1866. It was designed by J. B. Atkinson, and was partly funded by Isabella Anne Stapleton.^[1] It was Grade II listed in 1986.^[2]

The church is built of sandstone with Welsh slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry and a southwest steeple, and is in Gothic Revival style. The steeple has a tower with two stages, angle buttresses, a stair turret, tall two-light bell openings, and an octagonal broach spire with a clock face. There are a variety of two- and three-light pointed windows in the nave and vestry, and single lights and a four-light east window in the chancel. Inside, there is a hammer beam roof in the nave, a trefoil piscina, and some wall memorials, one dating from 1738.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Parish records of Carlton by Snaith". Archives Hub. Jisc. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1316358)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
^ Harman, Ruth; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2017), Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22468-9