St Mary the Virgin, Calton
St Mary the Virgin, Calton
St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II parish church on Back Lane, Calton, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, in the Diocese of Lichfield.
- Location
- Calton, Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Staffordshire
- City / town
- Calton
- Address
- Back Lane, Calton, Staffordshire, ST10 3JX
- Postcode
- ST10 3JX
- Built
- 1839
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Lichfield
- Parish
- St Mary, Calton
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; plain tile roof
- Grid reference
- SK 103 502
- Opening hours
- Church open during daylight hours. A key can be obtained locally, details on the church notice board in porch.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists the building as a chapel-of-ease of 1839: a four-bay nave with south porch, single-bay chancel and north-west vestry, in coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings and a plain-tile roof with coped verges. Pointed windows include a Y-traceried east window. The gabled south porch has a pointed door and a niche with a statuette of the Virgin; a weather-boarded bellcote has a hipped roof.
The interior has a pointed chancel arch on moulded imposts, a west gallery on cylindrical cast-iron columns with an arcaded rail, plaster ceilings and cased beams. Fittings include an octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels and fleurons, a semi-octagonal wooden pulpit, and a seventeenth-century communion rail heavily carved with foliage, a piece of which hangs on the south wall. A Grade II sundial stands about ten yards south of the church.