Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148423
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148423
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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 ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 50608 41071
Details
KIRKBY WHARFE WITH CHURCH LANE SE 54 SW NORTH MILFORD (north side) 4/41 Church of St John The Baptist 3.2.67 GV II* Church. Late C12, with C13 and C14 additions and alterations, and extensive rebuilding to exterior of 1860 for Lord Londesborough. Magnesian limestone and sandstone with Welsh slate roof. 2-stage west tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with north chapel. Tower: plinth, angle buttresses and offsets, south-west stair turret. Lancet windows, second stage has twin bell openings with Perpendicular tracery to heads. Gargoyles to angles. Battlements. South porch has pointed arch with hollow moulding. Within a studded door with decorative panels in a double-chamfered, round- arched opening with single order of nookshafts with waterleaf capitals under hood-mould. Aisles: offset buttresses. South aisle has 3-light windows one with reticulated tracery the other with curvilinear tracery. Cusped lancets to ends. Corbel table. Aisle to north has 2-light windows with geometrical and reticulated tracery, west end has 3-light window with reticulated tracery to head. Chancel: south side, end buttresses with offsets. Tudor- arched priest's door. Two 2-light windows with Y-tracery. 3-light straight-headed Perpendicular window. North chapel: 3-trefoiled-light, straight-headed window, similar 4-light window to east end, battlements. East end has 3-light window with reticulated tracery a C19 insertion. Interior. Double-chamfered pointed tower arch with imposts. Nave has cylindrical piers with moulded capitals and pointed arcade. Triple- chamfered, pointed chancel arch with imposts. North chapel has double- chamfered pointed arcade in octagonal pier. C16 pierced screen. Norman tub font. Monuments: early C19 Italian carved marble tablet of the Adoration of the Magi. Fragments of several pre-Conquest crosses. Fragments of C15 and C16 stained glass.
Listing NGR: SE5060841071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326425
- 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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