TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH

TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH, RIPLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149814
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH
Statutory Address:: TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH, RIPLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149814
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH, RIPLEY ROAD

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:: TOWER OF THORNTON CHURCH, RIPLEY ROAD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
National Grid Reference:: SE 26142 64252

Details

SE 26 SE BISHOP THORNTON RIPLEY ROAD (west side, off)

8/24 Tower of Thornton Church

GV II

Tower of Roman Catholic church. C18. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar. 3 stages, with offset diagonal buttresses. Single-light windows to first and second stages, paired lights to belfry stage, all with pointed hoodmoulds. Eaves cornice, battlemented parapet. The first parochial chapel on this site was built c1460 by the devout John Walworth, Forester to the Archbishop of York, who lived at Raventoft Hall (qv). After the split of the Anglican and Catholic churches Raventofts was a main centre of Catholicism in the area, the priest of Thornton church living at the house. By 1720 the church was in a poor state of repair and probably in 1790 was replaced by the presbytery built then in Bishop Thornton village with a chapel in the attic (qv). A new Catholic church was built next to the presbytery in 1809, while the Anglican church was built in 1888. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1967, p 401.

Listing NGR: SE2614264252

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Legacy System number:: 330945
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 401

Legal

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