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Church History

It was founded in 1605 and closed in 1992.

St. Marys was on an elevated site on the south side of Friargate brow. The only access was by a flight of steps in a small tunnel through a row of shops. The church was demolished in the 1990s and the site is now a car park. A small shrine at the end of the tunnel marks the location of the church porch.

Maps

The church was located near OS grid reference SD536296. You can see this on maps provided by:

• this church marked on a Google map. (Use this to report a corrected location)
• Old Maps
• Streetmap.co.uk.
• multimap.com. (Ignore the red circle on this map as we do not yet have a precise location).
• www.magic.gov.uk
• Google maps showing nearby churches with satellite image option.

Help required

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	We do not have a precise reference to show exactly where the church was located. If you do know its exact position on a map then please select the following map link, and use the instructions for passing on map locations. That should enable us to determine the exact location. Use the contact link at the end of this page to send us an email, and paste in the URL you have selected. Click here to show map.
	Do you have a picture of the church we could use? We don't link to existing pictures already on the web without permission from the copyright owner. If you have a .jpg or similar image then we can show it on this page. See the notes on taking church pictures.
	Has this church ever had a graveyard?