Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MIDDLE STREET NORTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1083378
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MIDDLE STREET NORTH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1083378
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MIDDLE STREET NORTH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MIDDLE STREET NORTH

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 02206 57976

Details

In the entry for: 14/15 DRIFFIELD MIDDLE STREET NORTH 1/1 (West side) Church of All Saints

The previous listing date shall be added to read:- 27/11/63

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TA 02 57 DRIFFIELD MIDDLE STREET NORTH (west side)

14/15 (1/1) Church of All Saints

- I

Church. Pre-conquest origins, C12 nave and clerestory, early C13 aisles and chancel. C15 west tower, north aisle rebuilt and north chancel chapel added 1880 by G G Scott. West tower, 4-bay aisled nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with north chapel. Ashlar, lead and slate roofs. West tower of 3 stages, approximately 34 metres high. Moulded plinth, string-courses to first and belfry stages. Angle-buttresses with ogee-headed canopied niches, panels with blank cusped tracery, and crocketed gablets at upper levels. First floor, south elevation: pointed window with Y-tracery, under hood- mould with carved stops. Belfry openings of 3 transomed lights with Perpendicular tracery under hood-moulds with stops and crocketed ogee gablets. Battlemented parapet with traceried panels and 8 crocketed pinnacles. West elevation: west door with continuous shallow roll moulding under crocketed ogee label with foliated finial flanked by heraldic shields. Pointed 4-light west window under crocketed ogee hood-mould with foliated finial flanked by small heraldic shields. Niche with moulded base and crocketed canopy to first floor, under carved panel with angels carrying heraldic shield. Nave: chamfered plinth, butresses with 2 offsets and grotesques, two 4-light square-headed windows with Curvilinear tracery in double-chamfered surrounds. South aisle west window 4-light with Curvilinear tracery under hood-mould with stops of monarchs heads, under raised coped gable. Early C13 south door of 3 orders, with colonnettes and keel mouldings, under hood-mould with dog-tooth and stops: to right, a Paschal lamb, to left, a beast head. Nave clerestory has C12 round-headed windows throughout. Plain corbel table. Pointed 2-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hood-mould to raised coped gable with cross finial. Chancel: low chamfered plinth, shallow buttresses, with crocketed pinnacles, sill band. Round-headed priest's door of 2 orders with C19 attached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and keel-mouldings, and outer order of palmette ornament. 2 square-headed 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under labels with stops of human and beast heads. Parapet with moulded coping. 5-light east window with Perpendicular tracery under segmental arch and label with beast-stops. Raised gable with moulded coping and cross finial. Interior: north and south arcades of c1200 with water-holding bases, round piers and abaci, and round-headed double- chamfered arches. Roll-moulded string to north and south walls beneath clerestory sills. Font of c1180: goblet-shaped with 4 colonnettes with waterleaf capitals. C14 chancel arch with pointed double-chamfered head dying into responds; C14 piscina with cusped ogee head to chancel south wall. Interesting collection of C12 architectural fragments in chancel north chapel.

Listing NGR: TA0220757977

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
166874
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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