Church of St Margaret and St James
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075165
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret and St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075165
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret and St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ST JAMES
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ST JAMES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Marton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 66658 23992
Details
NY 62 SE LONG MARTON BROOM
22/123 Church of St Margaret 6.2.68 & St James
I
Parish church. Nave's north and west walls, with at least part of the south wall, are pre-conquest; tower added probably early C12, chancel extended C12, south chapel added mid C15 and vestry C16. restored late C19. Early masonry of coursed blocks with wide jointing. Long-and-short quoining to north-east corner of nave stands proud; render to west wall suriving inside C19 gallery's stair turret may be original. Later masonry of finer cut blocks, sometimes snecked; chamfered plinth and string courses to east end. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings. West tower, nave, and chancel. Various window types, mostly mullioned; pre-conquest window with monolithic semicircular head to north side of nave (blocked internally). Paired belfry opening on north side of 3-stage tower is original, others are C19 reconstructions. Gabled south porch repaired 1880. Only west doorway, now opening into tower, is pre-conquest with rebates and draw-bar slot to its inner jambs; south doorway cut through at later date. Their carved tympana (possibly pre-conquest) were reset in their present position during C19 restoration; west door's tympanum discovered when access for present west gallery was constructed. North doorway (part-blocked) C12. South chancel door mid C14, as is 2-seater sedilia and piscina in south side of chancel.
Listing NGR: NY6666123993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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