Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, BOND END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149921
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, BOND END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149921
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, BOND END
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, BOND END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34659 57324
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH BOND END (south-east side)
6/49 Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary (formerly listed 15.5.68 as Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic))
GV II
Church of St Mary. 1831. Coursed squared gritstone, Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, central 3 bays slightly projecting and pedimented. C20 glazed door in addition to right. Ground floor: central single-storey porch, now blocked to form chapel, flanked by 6-pane sashes with C20 frame far right. Single-storey projecting bay to left. Round-arched niche with statue above porch. Other windows are tall sashes with 4 panes, the upper 2 segmental-arched, with projecting sills, first-floor sill band to central 3 bays and first floor lintel band. Eaves cornice, central triangular pediment with cross in relief. Ashlar coping. Conical ventilator to roof. Rear: ground-floor windows blocked, first-floor windows as front. Interior: C20 redecoration and fittings. 2 cast-iron columns with acanthus capitals support balcony at west end. Ceiling divided into 8 panels with egg-and-dart mouldings. Large roundel with fan motif to centre panel and roundels with flower and leaf motifs to outer panels. Organ built 1860 and installed 1961. The building was designed to look like a private house, shortly after the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. The foundations are said to have come from the ruins of St Hilda's Chapel, Rudfarlington, but no early stonework was visible at resurvey. Anon, Handbook of Knaresborough, (c1889-1900) p 31. H Speight, Nidderdale, (1906) p 48.
Listing NGR: SE3465957324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Handbook of Knaresborough, (1889-1900), 31
Speight, H, Nidderdale, (1906), 48
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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