St Mary's Church, South Dalton

St Mary's Church is the parish church of South Dalton, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. South Dalton had a church in the mediaeval period, which in 1848 was described as "an ancient edifice, with a tower". It was demolished and rebuilt between 1858 and 1861. The new church was commissioned by Beaumont Hotham and designed by John Loughborough Pearson in the Gothic revival style. It cost £25,000 and Nikolaus Pevsner praises its steeple as "tall, extremely slender and noble in outline". A vestry was added in 1878, again designed by Pearson. The building was grade I listed in 1968. The church is built of stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, north and south transepts, a chancel with north and south chapels and a north vestry. There is a west steeple, which is 208 feet (63 m) high. The steeple has a tower with three stages, a moulded plinth, a moulded band with blank quatrefoils, buttresses, a four-light pointed west window with a hood mould, and three-light bell openings above which is a balustrade of trefoil-headed openings. The bell openings are flanked by clasping buttresses rising to an octagonal spire. There is a carved corbel table with five ornate bands, a low parapet, and a tall octagonal spire with two tiers of lucarnes, short flanking pinnacles and a weathervane. Inside, the fittings were all designed by Pearson. There are

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