Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083376
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083376
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Driffield
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 00988 57798
Details
TA 00 57 DRIFFIELD LITTLE DRIFFIELD
13/9 Church of St Mary -
- II*
Church. C12 origins, nave and chancel rebuilt 1889 by Temple Moore, C15 west tower. 2 bay chancel, 4-bay nave with north porch, west tower. Latter of 2 stages with chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses, and hollow-chamfered string at belfry level. West window of 2 pointed lights. 2-light belfry openings with Curvilinear tracery, corbel table, with masks, to parapet. Pyramidal roof with weathercock. Nave: chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets. 2-light windows with cusped tracery. Blocked south door to nave with attached shafts and pointed head with keel moulding and ball ornament. Raised coped gable. Chancel has round-headed south door with continuous chamfer and east window of 3 lights with elaborate Curvilinear tracery flanked by buttresses. Raised coped gable with cross finial. Interior: C12 tower arch, apparently inserted into an older structure, with 3 human faces carved onto each impost. The nave contains a 9-sided tub font and an early C18 pulpit. In the north of the chancel is a C19 plaque commemorating the burial there of King Alfred of Northumbria in AD 705. On the opposite wall is a plaque recording the death of Lora, Viscountess Downe (d 1812) the inscription on which refers the reader to the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1812 for a more full description of her 'character and other particulars'. large number of sculptured fragments have been incorporated into the exterior fabric of the nave including a pre-Conquest interlace slab.
Listing NGR: TA0098857798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166868
- 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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