 Bingham
St Mary and All Saints
Stonework
The church is built largely from limestone.
The tower is of ashlar blocks, probably from the Ancaster quarries. The walls
are very thick, especially at low level, and are almost certainly rubble-filled.
Some of this stone is said to have been salvaged from the nearby Roman settlement
of Margidunum.
Most of the rest of the walls are of limestone skerries, perhaps locally sourced,
with limestone ashlars for butresses and window surrounds, and for the lowest
courses of the chancel. There are a few pieces of other stone, perhaps Mansfield
sandstone, mixed in with the limestone courses.
Most of the stonework of the windows was restored
in the 19th Century.
The south face of the porch and choir
vestry is of sandstone.
The Victorian clerestory is of larger,
more regular blocks. The clergy vestry and
former organ chamber, again a Victorian extension,
is of small stones, but laid in regular courses. The 20th Century vestry extension
(boiler house and old toilet block) is of larger, more regular blocks than
the vestry itself, laid in very definite courses, and perhaps from a different
source.
The roof is Welsh slate.
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