The Langley Archway
THE LANGLEY ARCHWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083182
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Langley Archway
- Statutory Address:
- THE LANGLEY ARCHWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083182
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Langley Archway
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LANGLEY ARCHWAY
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:
- THE LANGLEY ARCHWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Howden
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 74831 28177
Details
HOWDEN BISHOP'S MANOR PARK SE 7428 12/79 The Langley Archway 16.12.66
GV II* Archway. Early C15. Built for Bishop Langley, Bishop of Durham 1406-37. Brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Large flat 4-centred arch of 2 hollow-moulded orders set on jambs with broad chamfer to north, set in square-headed frame with stepped string course over. Central angel above bears arms of Canon Langley and is flanked by 2 trefoil-cusped single-light windows. Fragmentary coved course above. To south: brick returns flank archway. At first-floor level the wall can be seen to be approximately 2 feet thick and there is a deep splay to the windows. Between them a brick built arched cupboard has been let into the wall. Gateway to Bishop's Manor complex. Neave D, Howden Explored, 1979. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE7482828176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, D, Howden Explored, (1979)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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