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, [1] 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. [2] [3]
The church is built of stone, with millstone grit dressings, and a stone slate roof. It consists of a nave, north and south 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 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 font with a canopy dating from 1726, Minton tiles in the chancel, and some stained glass by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier. [3] [4]