Church of Saint Giles

CHURCH OF SAINT GILES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1084145
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Giles
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT GILES
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1084145
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Giles
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF SAINT GILES

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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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT GILES

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hayton
National Grid Reference:
SE 83568 46379

Details

SE 84 NW HAYTON BURNBY

10/2 Church of Saint Giles (Formerly listed under General)

26.1.67 II*

Church. Late C12 nave, early C13 chancel, west end rebuilt 1840 by Rev. Charles Carr, entire church restored by Giles Gilbert Scott 1908. Ashlar patched with brick to south, coursed rubble to north, graduated slate roof. Nave with west bellcote and infilled arcade to demolished north aisle, 3-bay chancel with infilled 2-bay arcade to north chapel. Nave: ogee-headed lancet to west , 3 square-headed 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. C19 bellcote, in Romanesque style with double bell-opening and mid-wall shaft under tympanum. Ornate C19 west door in Romanesque style. Chancel: tall round-headed window with nook shafts with waterleaf capitals and nail-head ornament under dentilled hood-mould with human head at apex. Lancet to centre. Altered square-headed 2-light window with Perpendicular tracery to east. Pointed double-chamfered priests' door with C13 hinges. 3-light pointed east window with intersecting tracery. Interior: Nave north arcade has cylindrical piers with waterholding bases and octagonal abaci bearing double-chamfered segmental arches. Chancel: cylindrical pier and responds to north arcade. Round abaci to pier, octagonal abaci to responds, supporting double-chamfered arches. 3 early C13 sedilia to south wall have attached shafts and trefoil heads under gablets. Damaged trefoil-headed piscina. 7-bay principal rafter roof to entire church with brattished wall-plates and strutted side purlins. C12 tub font with later painted inscription.

Listing NGR: SE8356846379

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Legacy System number:
166970
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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