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Low Marnham St Wilfrid

Official Listing Description

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The Church
The Village Hall (formerly the school, now used for worship)

Church

Parish church, now redundant. C13, C14, C15, C19, restored 1846. Dressed coursed rubble and ashlar. Slate roofs. Buttressed. Plinth to all but the south aisle. Tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, north chapel and chancel. Diagonally buttressed 2 stage tower with moulded plinth band and bands. 2 remaining crocketed pinnacles to the once embattled parapet with 2 gargoyles to the north and south sides. Arched 3 light west window with cusping and hood mould. In the belfry are 4 arched openings each with 2 lights and a hood mould. There are 3 small rectangular stair lights and single clock faces to the north, south and west sides. The west wall of the north aisle has a single arched C14 3 light window with cusped curvilinear tracery and hood mould. The diagonally buttressed north aisle has 5 qargoyles and 4 C15 3 light windows under flat arches and with moulded surrounds. Between the western most pair is a 4 centred C15 arched doorway with moulded surround and wooden door. The east wall of the north chapel has a single similar 3 light window. The C15 clerestorey has a single traceried window with 3 cusped lights under a flat arch. To the left are 3 windows each with 3 arched lights under a flat arch. There are 5 gargoyles. The diagonally buttressed east end has a heavy moulded plinth band with a string course running over which extends around the north and south sides. There are 2 gargoyles. The arched 3 light window has cusped panel tracery and a hood mould. The south chancel wall has a single arched and traceried 2 light window with cusping. To the left is a C19 doorway and further left a single C14 window with 2 cusped lights and single transom under a flat arch with hood mould and decorated label stops over. The east wall of the south aisle has a single C14 3 light arched, traceried and cusped window with hood mould. Running under is a string course which extends around the south wall. The gabled angle buttresses of the south aisle are decorated with blind tracery. There is a single C15 3 light traceried and cusped window under a flat arch with hood mould over. To the left is the C19 porch with single ridge cross and entrance with slim columns and moulded capitals supporting the moulded arch with hood mould and head label stops over. The inner C14 ogee arched doorway with heavily moulded surround has a C19 hood mould and head label stops. Left of the porch is a single similar C15 2 light window. There are 2 gargoyles. The west wall has a single arched and cusped light. The clerestorey corresponds to the north. Interior. 3 bay C13 nave arcades. The south arcade columns have octagonal cores surrounded by 4 detached shafts. The capitals are decorated with crocket and other leaves, those of the east and west have plain moulded capitals, and support double chamnfered arches with hood mould and label stops to the north side. The north arcade has round columns and keeled responds all with moulded capitals supporting double chamfered arches with hood mould and label stops over to north and south sides. The C13 double chamfered chancel arch is supported on keeled columns with moulded capitals and has a hood mould over. The inner arch of the double chamfered tower arch is supported on corbels. The 2 bay C13 chancel north chapel arcade has a single column with half octagonal core surrounded by 4 detached shafts. The capitals are decorated with crocket and other leaves. The circular responds have moulded capitals. These support double chamfered arches with hood moulds to north and south. The south chancelwall has a chamfered arched tomb recess with hood mould over. The south wall of the south aisle has an arched and cuspedpiscina and a moulded arched aumbry. In the north west corner of the nave wall is a small carved head. The chancel roof is supported on C19 corbels. In the south chancel is a monument to Ann Cartwright, 1804, and a further monument to Catharine Cartwright, 1799, decorated with an urn on the crown and a crest on the apron. The north nave wall has a monument to Mary Owtram, 1778. The south aisle wall has a fine and elaborate monument to Edm. Nicholson, 1693, decorated with cherubs and urn on the crown and crest and skull on the apron. The tablet is flanked by carved drapery. A further fine monument to William Cartwright, 1748, is decorated with an urn on the crown and flora and crest on the apron. The north aisle wall has remnants of a fine C17 monument decorated with 2 skulls on the apron. There are several C18 and C19 floor slabs, some to the Cartwright family. In the north aisle is a hatchment dated 1749 and a fragment of C15 stained glass depic ting a saint.

Listing NGR: SK8067869393

Village Hall

School, now parishchurch, and wall with railings extending in front. Dated 1823, altered early C20. Built for The Earl Brownlow. Red brick with some blue brick dressing, iron railings. Slate roof with remnants of a stack to the right gable. T-plan, single storey, 3 bays. 3 windows each with 2 cusped lights with lead lozenge glazing bars, wooden frames and segmental blue brick arch over. Suspended from the arch is a single central red brick inverted decorative triangle. The central window replaces the original doorway. To the left, set back, is a C20 porch, the doorway with segmental blue brick arch and wooden plank door. The right gable has an ashlar plaque inscribed "Erected by The Earl Brownlow 1823". The rear/north wall has a single 4 light window under blue brick arch. Extending 17 metres along the front and metres north and south is a low red brick wall surmounted by iron railings, broken by a gateway with similar iron gate. Included for group value only.

Listing NGR: SK8065469428