CHURCH OF SAINT MARY

CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1149064
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1149064
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wharram
National Grid Reference:: SE 86393 65928

Details

WHARRAM MAIN STREET SE 86 NE (west side, off)

4/125 Church of Saint Mary 10.10.66 GV I

Church. Of tower and nave with early C12 insertions, C14 north aisle with additional late C18 or early C19 west bay, C19 rebuilding of south nave wall, chancel of 1862. Hammer-dressed sandstone rubble, Welsh slate roof. West tower, 3-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel. West front: 4-stage tower with blocked round-headed doorway of 2 moulded orders on narrow shafts with pendant triangle capitals, probably of Norman date. Square-headed slit windows to second and third stage. String course. Double round-headed belfry windows. Rebuilt 4-course parapet, slightly corbelled out. South porch contains Norman round-headed door with arch of 5 orders, the innermost rolled, the outermost with billet and zigzag. Volute capital to left, fluted capital to right, both worn. Both responds absent. Nave: C19 paired lancets. North aisle: additional west bay with one Y- traceried window. Square-headed window with 2 trefoiled lights to easternmost bay and east end. Chancel: blind to north, lancets to south, 3 stepped lancets to east. Interior: tall round-headed tower arch of 2 orders with detached shafts carrying capitals with pendant triangles. Pointed chancel arch seems to rest on earlier jambs with volute capitals. Norman tub font. Monument on west wall of north aisle to James Fox, died 1790. Plaque, on shelf held by consoles, flanked by fluted pilasters with paterae to capitals. Fluted frieze and moulded cornice supporting urn. For detailed arguments concerning the dating of the fabric of the tower and nave and their features, see Bilson J, "Wharram-le-Street Church, Yorkshire and Saint Rule's Church, Saint Andrew's, Archaeologia, 73, 1923, pp 55-72, Taylor H M and Joan, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Vol II, 1965, pp 647-653, and Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE8639665925

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 328828
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
Taylor, H M, J , , Anglo Saxon Architecture, (1965)
'Archaeologia' in Archaeologia, , Vol. 73, (1923), 55-72

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.