Ruins of Old Church of Saint Matthew
RUINS OF OLD CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132023
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Old Church of Saint Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF OLD CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132023
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Old Church of Saint Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF OLD CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW
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:
- RUINS OF OLD CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bainbridge
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91625 86329
Details
BAINBRIDGE STALLING BUSK SD 98 NW 13/77 Ruins of old church of Saint Matthew - II Ruins of church. Post medieval. Low building of 3 x 2 bays, with added single-storey gabled porch to south with stone benches inside. Chamfered ashlar square-headed inner doorway. 3 plain window openings to south and north. On east side, 2 chamfered mullion windows, 1 without mullion. West wall blank. Interior: 2 arcades of 2 segmental arches running parallel to the gable. The liturgical east may originally have faced north, as is implied by the reconstructed altar base. VCH i, p 212.
Listing NGR: SD9162586329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 212
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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