Church of St Mark North Yorkshire, England

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SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6322SW REDCAR ROAD, Marske 802-1/5/14 (North side) 13/04/67 Church of St Mark (Formerly Listed as: SALTBURN AND MARSKE BY THE SEA REDCAR ROAD, Marske By The Sea (North side) Church of St Mark)

GV II

Parish church. 1866-7 by FP Cockerell; tower battlements c1892. MATERIALS: Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings; brick interior with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: Chancel with north organ and vestry and south tower; aisled nave with south-west baptistry and south porch. EXTERIOR: plinth, angle buttresses with coped offsets, trefoil-headed lancet windows. East elevation has string to sloping sills of 3 tall lancets with hoodmoulds under single relieving arch. South porch has roll-moulded pointed open arch with inner shafts and arch under steep gable with gabled kneelers to coping; returns have paired small trefoil-headed lights. Aisle windows paired under eaves gutter cornice with zigzag decoration; six-foil clerestory windows under corbel table with animal masks. West elevation has gabled slight projection containing pointed-arched door with zigzag moulding enclosing 2 diagonally-boarded doors between shafts under stone head with blind trefoils and vesica; large 8-foil window above flanked by buttresses. 3-stage tower has octagonal south-west stair turret with small lancet lights; first stage has paired windows, second stage blind and tall paired belfry openings with nookshafts and large stone louvres. Clock below battlemented parapet added after fire in 1892 had destroyed tower roof. INTERIOR: brick with ashlar arcades, bands and dressings; scissor-braced hammer-beam roof resting on stone corbels, and diagonal-boarded ceiling. 4 steps up to chancel, 2 to |sanctuary and one to altar. Attached arcaded to east windows with clasping rings on nookshafts supporting arches with ball-flower mouldings; deep ashlar reveals.

North organ arch and south tower chapel arcade with high relief soffit carving of symbols of evangelists. Dripmould to high roll moulded chancel arch with nookshafts and recessed inner arch on corbelled shafts with crocket capitals. Similar style richly carved capitals to 5-bay nave arcades, with roll-moulded arches on round piers with spurs to bases. Clerestory windows recessed in pointed-arched panels with ashlar arches. Aisle windows have paired arches on slender shafts. Baptistry west of south porch has arch springing directly from brick pier. West door has ashlar arch to brick panel, blocked by inserted temporary screen. Sill, impost and arcade bands. Aisle and nave roofs have pierced wood frieze. FITTINGS: include Gothic wood reredos, linen fold panelling to sanctuary. North aisle has delicate wrought-iron screen, removed in 1970 from chancel arch and adapted to form chapel. Norman font removed from old parish church of St Germain (qv) at Marske-by-the-Sea and found early C20 being used as water trough: square, with restored plinth; squat angle shafts with scallop capitals and richly carved sides with spirals and wheels. At west end, in front of doorway, tall medieval cross with foliated pierced head, probably C13; shaft restored. Pine pews have shaped ends, pent kneelers and roll-moulded boarded backs. C20 chairs in choir. Funeral hatchments transferred from St Germain hang in north aisle. STAINED GLASS: of high quality includes east by Heatron, Butler and Bayne, showing Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection, with well-drawn figures, in memory of Sophia Countess of Zetland, died 1865; north aisle glass includes west window signed Robert Burr & Sons, Westbourne Place, Paddington and Park Street Grosvenor Square. West rose window of very high quality medieval style glass, with geometric patterns and foliage in bright colours. MONUMENTS: brass plaque on inner face of baptistry pier states west window given by parishioners and other friends to commemorate Thomas, 2nd E