St Mary's Church, Birkin

[1] The church is built of limestone with a stone slate roof, and has a wooden porch.It consists of a two-bay nave with a south aisle, a chancel and apse, and a west tower.On the south front is a later timber porch, and a Norman doorway of four orders with various carvings, and three colonnettes with capitals decorated with interlace and scallops.The nave has an embattled parapet, and around the body of the church is a corbel table with carvings including humans, masks, and animals.There is a piscina in the south aisle with an ogee arch, and the font is dated 1663, but on an earlier base.
The church, in 2018
The 12th century doorway
View from the choir into the apse
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