Listed Building: The Orton Trust Workshop (5/51)

Church, now stonemasonry centre. C13/14 with earlier origins, restored 1868-87 and 1906. Coursed rubblestone with some dressings and stone slate and parapeted roof, with stone-coped gables. Choir, nave, south aisle and west tower. Choir has 2-light east window with Y tracery and hood mould with block stops. Blank north wall and 2-light east window to south with perpendicular tracery and flat-arched head with hood mould. North wall of nave has two 2-light windows with Y tracery and hood moulds with carved stops. Similar windows to south aisle with narrow south-east lancet. Clerestory has two 2-light windows with perpendicular tracery and flat-arched heads with hood moulds. South porch has chamfered arch dying into carved corbels, and many-moulded doorway within, with hood mould which has head stops. C19 plank door. C13 and C14 3-stage west tower has small narrow lancets to 1st stage, blank walling to 2nd stage and four 2-light bell-chamber openings with geometrical tracery and hood moulds with carved stops. String course, crenellated parapet and 4 small pinnacles. Interior has been cleared of fittings for present use and some partition walls erected but has chancel arch with rounded-arched head, 3-bay south arcade with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers and unchamfered pointed nave arch. Font with 4 projecting human and animal heads. Stained glass to east, north nave and south choir windows.

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May 8 2014 12:14PM