page_title: St Mary's Church, Tadcaster
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary's Church, Tadcaster / Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tadcaster. East face.
context_page_description: St Mary's Church in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire is a 15th-century parish church and the largest in Tadcaster. It is owned and used by the Church of England.
context_section_description: The church is of a perpendicular style and built out of local magnesian limestone with Welsh slate roof.  The church has a three-stage west tower, a three-stage bay aisled nave, south porch and a two-bay aisled chancel. It has been described as possessing "a fine show of buttresses, pinnacles and gargoyles." As mentioned in the section above, it contains fragments of a Norman church incorporated at various points.
  The tower is square with battlements, and was originally a bell tower, with a clock being added some time before 1764.  A three-faced clock was installed in 1858 and the present one dates from 1887.  The current 8 bells were re-cast in 1935 from an earlier set of 6 bells, dating back to 1760.  It has niches which would formerly have held statues of saints.
caption: East face
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