Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148462
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148462
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN 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.
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingbrough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 67351 30619
Details
HEMINGBROUGH MAIN STREET SE 63 SE (west side) Church of Saint Mary the 10/50 Virgin 17.11.66 I GV
Church. Late C12 origins to nave and north transept with C13, C14 and C15 additions; late C13 chancel with C15 south chapel and upper stage to north chapel; late C13 south transept with C15 additions; late C13 tower with spire of c1416-1446. Magnesian limestone ashlar with lead roof. Cruciform on plan. Aisled 4-bay nave, chancel with 4-bay south aisle and 3-bay chapter house and vestry to north, with 2-bay north and south transepts and crossing with tower and spire. Nave: plinth, buttresses with off-sets to battlements. South aisle: porch to third bay has plinth and double- chamfered pointed arch. Cross at apex. Within a pointed plank doorway with roll-moulding under hoodmould. Head at apex supporting statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in ogee-headed niche. Three 3-light windows with reticulated tracery, the westernmost blocked, and one window with Perpendicular tracery. 4-light window with Perpendicular tracery to west end. North aisle: blocked, round-arched baptismal doorway with moulded surround. 3-light windows, 2 straight-headed otherwise with Perpendicular tracery. 5-light, straight-headed window to west end. West end of nave has buttresses to half-height. Central pointed plank door with roll-moulded surround. 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery to head. To both sides of nave a band with gargoyles and battlements. Clerestory has 4-light, straight-headed Perpendicular windows throughout. Transept: mainly 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery some with curvilinear tracery. South- west side has 2 tall trefoiled lancets. North and south transept ends have 5-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. Embattled tower has 2-light openings with Y-tracery. Octagonal spire. Chancel; south aisle: plinth, buttresses with off-sets to each bay. 4-centred priest's doorway with hollow chamfered surround. Lamb and God the Father at apex. Eroded inscription. Angels in spandrels under hoodmould. 3-light Perpendicular windows. Battlements. North aisle: 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and 3-trefoiled light window. To east end of north aisle: flight of steps to 4-centred entrance with 4-panel door, a C19 pointed window and a 3-stepped-light window with trefoil heads above. Easternmost bay of chancel has 2-light window with Y-tracery. East end; angle buttresses with off- sets. Late C13 light window with cusped, stepped lancet lights, the outer ones cinque-cusped. Interior: nave arcade on cylindrical piers, pointed double-chamfered arches to 2 west bays. Double-chamfered round arches with roll-moulding to east. Crossing has pointed double-chamfered arches on trefoil piers. South aisle has 4-centred arches. North aisle has 2-pointed arches on cylindrical pier and pointed arch with fluted responds. Chancel: to south side a 4-bay, 4-centred arcade on 4-column piers with decorative capitals. To north: a pointed arch. Then pointed plank door with scroll hinges and above a blocked 2-light window with Y-tracery. Arcaded tub font of c1200. Pulpit reputedly of 1717 though with probable restoration, 6- sided with blank arches. Parclose screens to north chancel aisle. Remains of cresting of Elizabethan screen now in north chapel Pevsner records 4 panels of c1520-30 with monsters in tower. Stalls with poppy-heads. Misericord with leaf trail of c1200. Bench ends have tracery patterns and one with figure of a jester. Sculpture: 4 head corbels in south transept. C15 Easter credence with 2-bay front with traceried panels. Monuments: C15 cadaver. 6 medieval grave slabs of provosts of Hemingbrough, wooden memorial tablet to Dame Lenox Pilkington d1706. Jousting helmet and gauntlets of Sir Roger Pilkington d circa 1750. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978 pp 247-9. Freeman, R. W., Saint Mary The Virgin, Hemingbrough, A Summary and Guide, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE6735830619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Freeman, R W, Saint Mary The Virgin Hemingbrough A Summary and Guide, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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