page_title: St Mary's Church, Tarleton
section_title: Exterior
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary's Church, Tarleton / Architecture / Exterior
caption_attribution_description: English: Church Windows at St Mary's Church, Tarleton
context_page_description: St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church on the A59 road as it passes to the south of the village of Tarleton, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It is described by the Churches Conservation Trust as a "picturesque early Georgian chapel" with "a lovely unspoiled interior".
context_section_description: St Mary's is constructed in handmade brick that was originally plastered, with stone slate roofs and with ashlar upper parts to the tower.  Its plan consists of a small rectangular building in four bays, with a semi-octagonal apse, a bell-tower at the west end, and to the west of this a flat-topped porch.  The church measures 47 feet 9 inches (14.55 m) by 21 feet (6.40 m), with the apse measuring 12 feet (3.66 m) by 8 feet (2.44 m).  Along the north and south walls are large round-headed windows with glazing bars that are continued upwards into intersecting tracery. Above each window is a keystone, and between the windows are triangular pilasters which act as buttresses. 
   The apse has a similar window on each side, leaving the east end blank.  Running down the east end is a rain drain pipe, its head being decorated with the arms of Banastre of Bank, and the date 1719.  On the top of each corner and on the east gable end is a flaming-urn finial.  Around the summit of the apse is a modillioned cornice.  At the west end of the porch is a round-headed doorway with a keystone, on each side of which is a window similar to those on the sides.  Rising above this, the west end of the church and the lower part of the tower are stuccoed.  On each side of the tower is a small round-headed window, and an even smaller round-headed window is in the lower part of the tower.  The tower is thin and oblong.  On each side of the tower, above a string course, is a louvred bell opening with a triangular head, and around the top of the tower is a moulded cornice.  On its summit is a rotunda consisting of a cupola carried on columns, surmounted by a weathervane.  The turret had two bells but one was moved to Holy Trinity. The remaining bell is dated 1824.
caption: St Mary's windows on the North facing wall
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