Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149196
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149196
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, 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 MARY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Byland and Scawton
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 54897 83590
Details
SE 58 SW
8/51
4.1.55
SCAWTON
MAIN STREET
(east side)
Church of Saint Mary
GV
I
Church. C12 with C15 insertions and porch and restoration of 1892 by
C. Hodgson Fowler. Limestone rubble, stone slate roof. 2-bay nave with
south porch, 2-bay chancel. West front: restored round-headed window.
Wooden bellcote to gable end. To south: porch contains round-headed door of
2 zigzag-moulded orders supported on colonnettes with scalloped capitals.
Beaded hoodmould. 3-light square-headed double-chamfered window to second
bay. To north: blocked square-headed doorway with narrow single-light
round-headed window immediately to left and square-headed windows to extreme
left and right. Chancel: to south a blocked square-headed priests' door,
and 2 square-headed windows. 2 round-headed windows to north. East end: 3-
light trefoil-headed window in square-headed frame with narrow slit window
above. Interior: chancel arch flanked by arched niches with nook-shafts for
reredoses of lay altars, later converted to squints. To left of altar a
niche of uncertain function consisting of a trough and two columns with
waterleaf capitals supporting a moulded cornice. To right of altar a single
pointed sedile, a square-headed aumbry and a pointed piscina. Font: round,
possible Norman on later base, with tall octagonal C17 wooden cover.
Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE5489783590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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