CHURCH OF ST AGATHA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1131607
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1131607
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Easby
National Grid Reference:: NZ 18551 00275

Details

EASBY EASBY NZ 10 SE

4/41 Church of St Agatha

4.2.69

GV I

Church. C12, c1200, C13 and late C14, restored 1869 by Sir G G Scott. Rubble; artificial slate, stone slate and lead roofs. 3-bay nave with west bellcote, 2-storey south porch, south aisle and north transept, 3-bay chancel. Nave, west end: C12; pilaster buttresses flank lancet with head- stops to label; C19 2-light bellcote. Porch: late C14. Offset buttress to left; double-chamfered pointed-arch doorway under label with shield stops, and a trefoil-headed niche above, and a chamfered first-floor light; line of Perpendicular roof below C19 gable; in west wall, early medieval grave cover set in plinth and chamfered stair vent; inside porch a chamfered pointed- arch doorway to east wall, 2 aumbry-like openings in west wall, chamfered and shafted south nave doorway of c1200 with head stops to label and original door; barrel vault. South aisle: late C14. Bays divided by offset buttresses. Two 2-light Perpendicular windows with hood-moulds; a 2-light chamfered mullion window. C19 ashlar parapet. Flat lead roof. East end of aisle: medieval grave covers with foliate crosses built into plinth; 3-light Perpendicular window. Artificial slate roof to nave, with ashlar copings. Nave north wall: 2 lancets with head-stops to labels. North transept: early C14. Plinth, and first-floor offset. Ground-foor window of 3 trefoiled lights; small first-floor lancet. Chancel, south side: C12. Quoins to right. Low small lancet; round-headed windows with hood-moulds flanking chamfered pointed-arch priest's doorway with head-stops to label and pilaster buttress to right; 2-light Perpendicular window; pilaster buttress. Stone slate roof. Ashlar coping, gable cross. Chancel, east end: pilaster buttresses flanking early C13 round-arched window of 3 pointed lights, with head-stops to label. Chancel, north side: early C13. From east: hollow- chamfered round-headed window; shallow projection of internal tomb recess with stone roof; 2 similar windows; low small lancet. Interior: 3-bay arcade of early C14 double-chamfered arches with labels and original chevron stencils on late C13 octagonal piers with crude capitals; smaller late C13 double-chamfered arch to south chapel; early C14 double-chamfered arch to north transept; C19 Early-English-style chancel arch. C12 bench table along west wall returns along part of north wall. Outline of round-arched north doorway. South doorway has chamfered segmental rear-arch and octagonal stoup. To west,pointed-arch doorway with C14 door to porch staircase. Above south door, Queen Anne coat of arms. In west wall of south aisle, chamfered unglazed window from porch chamber. Romanesque lead-lined font with delicate arcading on twisted colonettes and palmette frieze, on later stem. South chapel: enclosed by 2- and 3-light Perpendicular wooden screens with fragments of cresting; trefoil-headed piscina with nailhead decoration; brass on south wall to Mrs Eleanor Bowes d1623. Chancel, south side: trefoil-headed piscina with roll moulding; 3-seater sedilia with trefoil- headed arches and mid C13 paintings of bishops. North side: tomb recess with lidless coffin. Plaster cast of c700 Easby Cross, now in Victoria and Albert Museum. East window: 3 small panels of medieval glass, C12 figures of St John, a Premonstratensian Canon and a C15 angel. Wall paintings: the church possesses a unique collection of mid C13 frescoes in the chancel discovered during the C19 restoration of the church and delicately restored by Burlinson and Grylls: on the reveals of the 2 easternmost north windows are 4 Rogationtide figures depicting Sowing, Pruning, Digging and Hawking; on the north wall are scenes from the Garden of Eden; on the south wall are scenes from the Nativity and Passion. The church was served by Premonstratensian Canons from Easby Abbey. VCH i, pp 62-64.

Listing NGR: NZ1854700273

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 62-64

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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.