Church of Saint Helen
CHURCH OF SAINT HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148467
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148467
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT HELEN, CHURCH 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 SAINT HELEN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skipwith
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 65726 38504
Details
SKIPWITH CHURCH STREET 5342 SE 63 NE 7/64 (north side) Church of Saint Helen 17.11.66 I -
Church. Anglo-Saxon tower of 2 builds with C15 upper stage, Anglo-Saxon west wall of nave with 2 bays of north aisle c1190 with C13 extension, south aisle and chancel c1300, C16 clerestory windows, south porch of 1821-2 and restoration by J L Pearson of 1877. Magnesian limestone with plain tile roof. 3-stage west tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. Tower: quoins. First two stages have slit windows. 1st and 2nd stage bands. To third stage are twin light, trefoil-headed bell openings. Battlements with pinnacles. Nave: porch has pointed-arched opening. Round- arched plank door restored in the C19 but incorporating decorative C13 ironwork, within chamfered surround and under dog-tooth hoodmould. South aisle has end buttress. Two lancet windows and one 3-light window with intersecting tracery. To west end a 3-cinquefoil light, straight-headed window and to east end a 3-light pointed window with geometrical tracery. North aisle: buttresses. Pointed plank doorway in chamfered surround. 3-cinquefoil-light, straight-headed window, and similar window to west end, otherwise a 3-light, straight-headed window with shouldered arches and similar window to east end. Clerestory has 2-light mullion windows. Chancel: to north side a plank priest's door in chamfered surround. To each side are two 3-light, straight-headed windows with cusped intersecting tracery. Similar 5-light window to east end. Interior: round tower arch with projecting block instead of capital and pilaster strips carried round the arch, semi-circular and oblong in section. Round-headed doorway above. Oblong recess to first stage of east wall of tower. Nave has 3-bay, double- chamfered, pointed arcades, the two westernmost arches have dog-tooth decoration to hoodmoulds. Mainly octagonal piers, some with nailhead decoration. One cylindrical pier to south aisle has waterleaf capital with cruciform abacus. Piscina to chancel. Plain wooden almsbox dated 1615. Fragments of medieval stained glass to some windows. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1978, pp 340-341.
Listing NGR: SE6572538505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 340-341
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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