Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1084136
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1084136
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOW STREET
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 ALL SAINTS, LOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Londesborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 86861 45384
Details
LONDESBOROUGH LOW STREET SE 84 NE (south side) 16/26 Church of All Saints 26.1.67 - I
Church. Early C12 nave, early C14 west tower (raised in late C15), north aisle, and chancel chapel; porch of 1678. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings, slate roofs. West tower of 3 stages, 4-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel with north chapel. West tower: projecting stair-turret to south-west quoin. First and second stages lit by lancets with continuous chamfer. Chamfered string below square-headed 2-light belfry opening under crenellated parapet with corner finials. Nave: pointed windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights under hoodmould to west and to centre, round-headed 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould to east. South door of one order originally with nook-shafts (now missing) to scallop capitals supporting lintel and tympanum with sundial beneath hollow moulding. Cll interlace cross-shaft inserted over. Porch: moulded capitals to round, moulded, arch: shaped kneelers, coped gable with finial. Chancel: diagonal buttress with offsets. Two 2-light square-headed windows with cusped ogee tracery under hoodmoulds flanking round-headed priests' door with quirk and hollow chamfer imposts and shallow hoodmould. Chamfered string over. Five-light 4-centred east window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould. Interior: shouldered arch to tower stair: shouldered rear- arches to lancets. Pointed double-chamfered tower arch with the inner order carried on corbels. North arcade: cylindrical piers on raised waterholding bases (dogtooth to centre pier) supporting moulded capitals (with nailhead to east, incised chevrons with nailhead to west) and pointed double- chamfered arches. Pulpit of 1719 with bolection-moulded panelling. Elaborate timber screen by Temple Moore beneath elliptical double-chamfered chancel arch. North chancel chapel arcade: octagonal pier and filleted responds carrying 2 pointed double-chamfered arches under hoodmoulds. The north chapel contains a number of memorials to the family of the Earls of Burlington: in particular a brass to Richard Boyle, the architect, died 1753. (This and the neighbouring brasses may have been removed from the coffins which lie in the family vault beneath the chancel). Memorial with white marble inscription set into black marble slab on white marble urns, with bosses, to Lady Grisold, Countess of Cumberland, died 1613. (Her age at death left blank). Wall tablet above to Francis the son of Henry Lord Clifford: small effigy of a child in swaddling clothes under a laurel wreath and the inscription: FRANCISCUS HENRICI DOM: CLIFF PRIMO - GENITUS HEU VIXIT HORAS 6 AD 1619
Foliated cross grave slab against north wall; 3 late C17 funeral banners (and the remnants of a fourth) suspended above. Gauntlets hang to right and to left of the east window; the helmets which once accompanied them are now kept in the Rectory. Early C13 scalloped font on 6 dwarf colonettes with annuli. An interesting feature of this church is the large number of graffiti, dating from the early C18 on, to be found around the south door of the porch.
Listing NGR: SE8686345384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167044
- 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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