Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149989
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149989
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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 ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24746 48547
Details
SE 24 NW STAINBURN CHURCH LANE (east side) 4/96 Church of St Mary
22/11/66
I
Church of St Mary. C12 and C17; 1894 restoration and addition by C Hodgson Fowler. Gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 3-bay nave with south porch and bellcote, one-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave: south porch has round arch and dripmould with worn human-head terminals; trefoil recess above; inner door with-plain tympanum. Cross-window to left of porch, narrow lancets to right, flanking a pointed-arched window with crude dripmould with human-head terminals. Bellcote at east end has 2 arches. A 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window in north wall of nave, and a narrow quoined lancet window at west end. Chancel: narrower and lower than nave. Blocked south door, with 3-light double chamfered mullion window under stepped hoodmould to right. Perpendicular-style east window of 3 lights. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping,gable crosses. Interior: fine Norman font with circular stem and polygonal bowl with interlaced arcading and relief designs. C12 round-headed chancel arch of 2 orders with plain imposts. Pews are C16 and C17. The 1894 restoration included refitting the chancel, reroofing, construction of the vestry and relaying grave slabs. The church is now redundant and is maintained by the Friends of Friendless Churches. For further information see H Speight, Kirkby Overblow and District, London, 1903, p 198.
Listing NGR: SE2474948548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Kirkby Overblow and District, (1903), 198
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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