St. Mary, Yealand

Introduction

Saint Mary, Yealand, in Yealand Conyers, was built in 1852 and designed by Paley.

Architecture and furnishings

The church is built of squared limestone with limestone dressings and a steep slate roof. The church comprises a nave, a lower chancel and a north porch. The north nave wall has four windows of plate tracery, each with two cusped lancets and a trefoil. The east wall has diagonal buttresses and three stepped lancets with hoods.

The porch has a deeply moulded doorway with a statue of the Virgin above in a carved sandstone niche. The west wall has diagonal buttresses and a central bay projecting with offsets, with a central buttress and two tall cusped lights. The central bay is terminated by two gabled bell openings. The interior has a 5-bay nave with an open timber roof with long scissor braces, ashlaring and side purlins. The chancel arch is of moulded sandstone, springing from columns carried on foliated corbels.