Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150284
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150284
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ouseburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44912 61782
Details
GREAT OUSEBURN MAIN STREET SE 4461-4561 (north-east side) 9/15 Church of St.Mary 15/3/66 GV II* Church. Norman tower with C13 belfry; C14 arcades, with vestry and aisles rebuilt 1820; C15 chancel and south chapel of 1883. Ashlar stone with sandstone and red brick vestry; stone slate roofs. West tower; 3-bay aisled nave; chancel, north vestry and south chapel. 3-stage tower on chamfered plinth. Inserted lancet in first stage, west face, and slit lights to south on first and second stages: second-stage light has reset corbelhead above. Clock face to west in second stage. Bell openings on all faces are paired round-headed chamfered lights with squared centre shafts, closed by pierced shutters. Chamfered belfry string course; embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles above waterspouts to east, west and south. Pyramidal roof. South aisle west end contains pointed double-chamfered doorway, with board double doors, beneath hoodmould. North and south aisle walls each contain three pointed 2-light windows with Y-tracery, beneath hoodmoulds. South chapel has chamfered plinth and offset west buttress. Moulded pointed priest's door- way and reset square-headed window of three cusped lancets to east. C19 Perpendicular window in chapel east end. Square-headed 2-light window in chancel south wall, and similar in north wall, partly obscured by lean-to vestry. Perpendicular east window in double-chamfered pointed opening. Interior. Round, double-chamfered tower arch on rectangular responds with plain imposts, coved on lower side. Arcades of tall, pointed, double- chamfered arches on slender cylindrical columns with moulded octagonal caps. Slightly stilted, two-centred, double-chamfered chancel arch on half-octagonal responds. Monuments: two wall monuments by Fisher of York on chancel north wall: a draped urn on a pedestal to Elizabeth Young, d.1779; and a panel in carved surround surmounted by a slender urn, to Sarah Horsfield, d.1780.
Listing NGR: SE4491261782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331830
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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