Bell Tower - St Mary - Broomfleet, East Riding of Yorkshire - Bell Towers on Waymarking.com

Bell tower of St Mary's church, Broomfleet, with a single bell.

"Church,1857-61 by J L Pearson. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressing, Welsh slate roof. 4-bay nave with north tower forming entrance porch to second bay, 2-bay chancel. Geometric style. West end: 2 lancets with roundel above. 2-light nave windows. Tower: pointed doorway to north with 2-light belfry openings flanked by blind quatrefoils to each face. Pyramidal roof. Chancel: pair of lancets to north. Vestry to south with 3-light transomed window to gable end and west door. East end: 3-light window. No interior features of note. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 1972."

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"This is one of the smallest churches by John Loughborough Pearson (1817-97), constructed in 1860-1 at the expense of Elizabeth Barnard of South Cave (The Buildings of England – York & the East Riding by David Neave and Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd ed., pub. Penguin, 1995). It stands in a pleasant little one-street village, which confounds one’s expectations after driving across the windswept expanse of Walling Fen to within a mile of the Humber estuary. One imagines Elizabeth Barnard took pride in this little community, for she engaged for this small job, one of the most notable church architects of the day, albeit one with local connections. What she got for her money was a simple nave and chancel, to which Pearson added stature by the provision of a N. porch tower.

This is unbuttressed and rises in two stages to a short pyramidal spire. The bell-openings are formed of pairs of lancets separated by shafts, with circles in the heads. The N. doorway is double-flat-chamfered with an order of side-shafts, and the entrance is lit by a pair of little lancets to the east and the west."

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Address of Tower: St Mary Main Street Broomfleet, Yorkshire England HU15 1RJ Number of bells in tower?: 1 Still Operational: Not Listed Relevant website?: Not listed Rate tower: Not listed Tours or visits allowed in tower?: Not listed

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