Church of St Mary

About

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Kirkby Fleetham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first church on the site was built in the Viking period. It was rebuilt in stone in the 12th century, from which period the south doorway survives.

The nave and south chapel date from the 13th century, while the north aisle and west tower were added in the 15th century. The church was largely rebuilt in 1871, to a design by Henry Woodyer. The building was grade II* listed in 1966.

The church is built of stone and has roofs of lead and Welsh slate. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, a north aisle, a south porch, a south chapel, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a south stair turret, bands, two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet.

There is also an embattled parapet along the nave. The south doorway is Norman and round-arched, with one order and zigzag decoration. Inside is a Norman font, which has been reworked, an effigy of Nicholas Stapleton, who died in 1290, and a monument to William Lawrence, carved in 1785 by John Flaxman.