Church of St. Mary

CHURCH OF ST. MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1084147
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST. MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1084147
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST. MARY, CHURCH 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST. MARY, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Huggate
National Grid Reference:
SE 88230 55510

Details

SE 85 NE HUGGATE CHURCH STREET (east side)

2/4 Church of St. Mary (Formerly listed under General) 26.1.67 I

Church. C12 nave and aisles, C13 chancel, early C14 west tower with recessed spire, C19 south porch and south vestry. Ashlar with slate roofs. West tower, 4-bay nave, l-bay chancel. West tower: dwarf diagonal buttresses, 2 trefoil-headed lights under pointed arch to each belfry opening. Cusped running scroll under blank quatrefoil panels to crenellated parapet. Crocketed corner pinnacles. Spire has shallow buttresses with offsets to diagonal sides, 3 tiers of crocketing, and finial cross. Nave: two 3-light square-headed windows with ogee tracery to south aisle, 3 C15 square-headed windows with cusped tracery to clerestory. Raised coped gable. In the east gable at the level of the clerestory are 2 small rounded-headed windows, with shafts; they have been extensively restored, but may have been retained from an earlier phase. Chancel: pointed 3-light east window, with C19 tracery: Geometrical style, under hoodmould. Interior: pointed tower arch of 2 chamfered arches dying into the responds. Late C12 north arcade with pointed arches of 2 square orders on polygonal abaci and round piers. South arcade of c1190 with double-chamfered pointed arches on polygonal abaci with leaf ornament and heads in high relief. Round piers, keel-moulded responds. Blocked door to former rood loft: pointed with continuous chamfer. C12 chancel arch of 3 square orders to nave with attached columns supporting scallop capitals, one with a volute. C15 octagonal font with bases to colonnettes, now removed, to diagonal sides, set on square plinth with cusped, pierced panels. Charity board dated 1826 to nave west wall. At least 2 earlier rooflines discernible over tower arch.

Listing NGR: SE8822855510

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
166972
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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