Church of St Mary Magdalene
Church of St Mary Magdalene, East Moors
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149272
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, East Moors
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149272
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, East Moors
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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 Magdalene, East Moors
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helmsley
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60968 90347
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 September 2023 to correct the name and to reformat the text to current standards
SE69SW
336-0/2/62
HELMSLEY
EAST MOORS
Church of St Mary Magdalene
(Formerly listed as Church of St Mary Magdelene)
04/01/55
GV
II*
Church. 1882. By Temple Moore. Dressed sandstone, lead roof to south aisle, Westmorland slate roof to nave. In Gothic Revival style. Single cell nave and chancel with lean-to south aisle incorporating slightly projecting south door.
West end: clasping buttresses at corners with central pilaster buttress containing two-light trefoil-headed window with quatrefoil tracery. Bellcote above has two Tudor-arched bell-openings surmounted by pinnacle with lucarnes and crockets. South wall of nave; small single light trefoil-headed window to left of door. South door: board door beneath pointed arch with hoodmould and label-stops, projecting slightly from line of south aisle. Two square-headed two-light cusped aisle windows to right. Square-headed two-light cusped window to chancel. Traceried three-light pointed east window. Roof of south aisle of very shallow pitch with gable coping. Steeply-pitched roof to nave and chancel, with gable coping (Pevsner, 1966)
Interior: nave and chancel under a single painted wagon roof. Single south aisle, with pillars to the nave, and a painted roof. Very simple fittings including a font, wooden pews and reading desk, carved and painted wooden reredos and iron light fittings.
History: recent research suggests that this was one of the last buildings designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott Jnr, and that the construction was supervised by Temple Moor who had been Scott's pupil, but who by this time had set up in practice on his own.
Listing NGR: SE6096890347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328288
- 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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