Danby Wiske Church

DANBY WISKE CHURCH, MOUNTSTROLL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1150204
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Danby Wiske Church
Statutory Address:
DANBY WISKE CHURCH, MOUNTSTROLL LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1150204
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Danby Wiske Church
Statutory Address 1:
DANBY WISKE CHURCH, MOUNTSTROLL 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DANBY WISKE CHURCH, MOUNTSTROLL LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Danby Wiske with Lazenby
National Grid Reference:
SE 33810 98337

Details

SE 39 NW
5/5
31.3.70

DANBY WISKE
MOUNTSTROLL LANE
(east side, off)
Danby Wiske Church

I

Church. C12 south wall and doorway, C14 chancel and north aisle, later C15
tower and C18 porch. Rubble and ashlar sandstone. Welsh and Westmorland
slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch, clerestory and north aisle,
chancel. Tower of ashlar with offset diagonal buttresses, stair tower with
2 slit windows, 2-light C15 belfry-window and embattled parapet. Nave:
3 bays. South doorway has Norman tympanum and on it 3 standing men in long
robes. South porch: gabled with raised verges, shaped kneelers and stone
coping. To right of porch a 2-light window with hoodmould and a single-
light pointed-arch window. Clerestory is in ashlar with 2-light windows.
Offset buttress at east end. Embattled parapet. Chancel: rubblestone with
stone dressings. 2 bays. 2 windows of 2 lights with cusped Y-tracery under
hoodmoulds flank trefoil-headed priest's door. Nave and chancel roofs have
stone coping with gable cross to chancel. Interior: tower has a vault of
diagonal and ridge ribs round a large circle. North arcade: 3 bays of round
piers with octagonal abaci supporting double-chamfered pointed arches.
Stalls have some re-set Jacobean panels. C14 effigy of lady, aumbry and
piscina.

Listing NGR: SE3381098337

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
332049
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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