The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John the Worker
THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST JOHN THE WORKER, SCARTHINGWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148447
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John the Worker
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST JOHN THE WORKER, SCARTHINGWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148447
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John the Worker
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST JOHN THE WORKER, SCARTHINGWELL 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:
- THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST JOHN THE WORKER, SCARTHINGWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Saxton with Scarthingwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 49218 36868
Details
SAXTON WITH SCARTHINGWELL SCARTHINGWELL LANE SE 43 NE 3/22D The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John The Worker
II Roman Catholic Church, former private chapel to Scarthingwell Hall. 1854, designed by Atkinson for Lord Hawkes, in the Neo-Norman style. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave with apsidal chancel. Moulded plinth and moulded sill band, Lonbard frieze at eaves. Ashlar coped gables with small square turret surmounting western gable. Apsidal east and has 7 tall round headed lancets. Nave has 4 tall round headed windows each divided into 2 lights with quatrefoils. To the south of the western gallery a C20, vestry, and a small gabled porch. West gable wall has 3 round headed niches, and, a smaller niche in the Gable. Interior has lavish plaster work decoration with a nibbed plaster vault in the apse, an ornate, round chancel arch, segment arched plaster vault over nave with 4 round arches surrounding the windows. Western wooden gallery supported in 3 arched western arcade reached by small staircase. The gallery now contains an organ, but it was almost certainly designed as the family pew, it has a ribbed round arched plaster vault.
Listing NGR: SE4921836868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326378
- 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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