Church of St Margaret

CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CATWICK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1083422
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1966
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CATWICK LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1083422
Date first listed:
16-Dec-1966
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CATWICK LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CATWICK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Riston
National Grid Reference:
TA 12330 42725

Details

RISTON CATWICK LANE TA 14 SW (west side, off) Long Riston 2/29 Church of St Margaret 16.12.66 GV II* Church. C13 origins with C14 tower, C17 buttresses to south side, nave and chancel heavily restored in 1855, tower repaired in 1881. Coursed pebbles with pinkish-red brick infill, ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-stage west tower, 3-bay nave with south porch, lower and narrower single- bay chancel with north vestry. Tower: diagonal buttresses with offsets. West side has 2-light pointed window with reticulated tracery to head. Second stage has 2-light pointed reticulated traceried belfry openings to each side. Eaves string course with gargoyles. Low parapet with pinnacles. Nave: buttesses with offsets between bays. South porch to first bay has angle buttresses with offsets. Moulded, pointed-arched door. Stone coped gable with ridge cross. Within a pointed plank studded door in chamfered surround. Otherwise nave has 2-light, straight-headed windows with Perpendicular-type tracery in double-chamfered surrounds throughout. Ashlar copings to gables. Chancel: angle buttresses with offsets. South side has central priest's entrance, a pointed plank studded door in moulded surround. To left a 2-light, straight-headed window with Perpendicular-type tracery in double-chamfered surround. North side: vestry has Caernarvon-arched entrance with studded plank door. East side of vestry has 2-trefoiled-light window. Chancel east end has 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular-type tracery in double-chamfered surround. Ashlar gable copings. Interior: 4- centred tower arch with double-chamfered head. Pointed, double-chamfered chancel arch on moulded responds. C19 octagonal font with traceried decoration on octagonal shaft. Kelly's Directory of the North East Riding of Yorkshire, 1929, p 613. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 307.

Listing NGR: TA1233042725

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 307
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1929)

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