Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, SHADY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1083812
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, SHADY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1083812
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, SHADY LANE
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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 MARTIN, SHADY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 10208 63256
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/06/2014
TA 1063-1163
11/11
BURTON AGNES
SHADY LANE
Church of St Martin
(Formerly listed under CHURCH LANE (north end))
30.6.66
GV
I
Church. C11 origins with mid-C12 north arcade, C13 south arcade, north
chantry of 1313, C15 clerestory and tower, C18 north side of chancel,
otherwise rebuilding of 1840. Magnesian limestone ashlar with brick chancel
and concealed roof. 3-stage west tower, 3-bay aisled nave with clerestory,
single-bay chancel. Tower: plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets. To
west side a pointed plank door in triple-chamfered cavetto- and ovolo-
moulded surround. Above, a 3-light Perpendicular window with partly re-cut
mullions under hoodmould with angel stops, on cavetto-moulded continuous
sill band. To second stage a twin-light flat-headed opening under
hoodmould, between canopied niches for statues. To third stage are 3-
stepped cinquefoil-light bell openings in 4-centred arched surrounds. Eaves
band with gargoyles at diagonals, battlements. Entrance to south porch a
C19 pointed arch with 3 columnar responds supporting double-chamfered arch
under hoodmould. Within, a plank door in chamfered surround under
hoodmould. Within again an C18 fielded-panel door. South aisle has
chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets. Re-cut, 2-cinquefoil-light
windows within straight headed surrounds. To west end of aisle a C19
quatrefoil window and to east end a 3-light pointed window with intersecting
tracery under hoodmould. North aisle has buttresses with offsets. Entrance
to second bay a pointed plank door within chamfered surround. To first bay
a late C20 boiler house. Otherwise a Cl9 2-light window with reticulated-
type tracery. Third bay has a large, blocked pointed-arched opening.
West end of north aisle has 2-light reticulated window with quatrefoil to
head under hoodmould. East end of north aisle has 3-light window with
intersecting tracery to head in double-chamfered surround, under hoodmould.
Clerestory has 3-trefoiled-light, straight-headed windows. Gargoyles.
Battlements. Chancel. Buttresses with offsets. South side has central
priests' door within pointed surround under hoodmould. Ogeed lancet windows
throughout under hoodmoulds. 3-light east window has reticulated-type
tracery to head under hoodmould. Interior. Triple-chamfered tower arch on
rounded responds with moulded bases and capitals decorated with beasts and
foliage. Nave. 3-bay C19 south arcade on alternate cylindrical and
octagonal piers with double-chamfered pointed arches. North arcade: 2
westernmost bays on cylindrical piers with re-cut scallop capitals and
moulded bases, pointed chamfered arches. The easternmost bay is C18 and has
semicircular arch with an affixed framed wooden arch with fluted pilasters,
frieze and cornice containing Boynton family pew. Re-cut piers with scallop
capitals support double-chamfered pointed chancel arch, the inner order is
chamfered, the outer is roll-moulded, with hoodmould with incised chevron
moulding. Chancel has ogeed piscina. C19 hammer-beam roof with angel
stops. Drum-shaped Norman font with tall thin blank arcading, re-tooled.
Woodwork: pulpit of c1700. Early C18 box pews. Remains of Perpendicular
traceried screen to rear of south aisle. Monuments. To south aisle a
segmentally-arched niche for a statue. Neo-classical wall monument to
Thomas Dade, d 1759. North aisle. Pointed-arched, triple-chamfered tomb
recess with tomb chest decorated with quatrefoils to Roger de Somerville,
d 1337, and his wife Maud, d 1317. Late C15 alabaster tomb chest decorated
with figures of saints with reclining figures of Sir Walter Griffith, d 1481
and his wife Jane Nevill. Elaborate marble wall monument to Sir Henry
Griffith, d 1645, and his 2 wives, with 3 effigies replaced by 3 black
coffins, columns and curtains to sides and base decorated with death's
heads, cartouche above. Wall monument to Sir Henry Griffith, d 1620, and
wife Elizabeth. 2 painted hatchments. Chancel has Baroque wall monument to
Sir Griffith Boynton, d 1761. Neo-classical wall monument to Sir Griffith
Boynton, d 1778. To Anne Cayley, d 1769, by the Fishers of York. Stained
glass. In the north aisle east window kneeling C18 figures of Sir Roger de
Somerville and wife Maude. East window and other chancel glass by Wailes.
In south aisle glass by Kempe. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East
Riding, 1978, pp 206-7.
Listing NGR: TA1020463257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 206-7
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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