St Mary's Church, Long Preston
St Mary's Church is the parish church of Long Preston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Long Preston at the time of the Domesday Book, but the current church was probably built in the late 14th century. The chancel was largely rebuilt from 1867 to 1868, to a design by Thomas Healey. The building was grade I listed in 1958. The church is built of stone, with millstone grit dressings, and a stone slate roof. It consists of a nave, north and south aisle#Church architecture, aisles, a south porch, a chancel, north and south chapels, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a clock face on the west, two-light bell openings, and crocketed corner finials. The porch is gabled, and has a molding (architecture), moulded entrance surround, a segmental pointed arch, a hood mould and a trefoil cross on the apex. Inside, there is a late-17th century pulpit, a Romanesque baptismal font, font with a canopy dating from 1726, Mintons, M ...
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