Church of Saint Matthew
CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148504
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148504
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MATTHEW, 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 SAINT MATTHEW, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Naburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 59895 45362
Details
NABURN MAIN STREET SE 54 NE (east side) 4/92 Church of Saint Matthew - II Church. 1854. By G T Andrews. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof and limestone spire. Early C14 Gothic Revival style. North-west tower, 4-bay nave with south porch and north aisle, 2-bay chancel with vestry to north. 3-stage tower. Buttresses with off-sets and angle stair turret to 2nd stage. Trefoil-headed lancets to each stage, slits to stair turret. Twin- light bell-openings with quatrefoils to heads under hoodmoulds. Broach spire. Nave and recessed chancel. Buttresses with off-sets. South porch has pointed plank doorway in surround with slender columns to jambs. Hoodmould with face stops. 2-light windows with trefoils and quatrefoils to heads. Continuous moulded sill band. Pointed priest's entrance to chancel with plank door and hoodmould. 3-light west window under hood with face stops, with quatrefoil to gable. 3-light east window under hood with face stops. Ashlar coping to gable ends. Interior: 3-bay arcade to north, with double-chamfered cylindrical piers. Double-chamfered chancel arch. Mainly C19 stained glass. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p.314.
Listing NGR: SE5989545362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326205
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 314
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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