St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross

St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross, Main Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150285
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross
Statutory Address:
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross, Main Street
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150285
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross
Statutory Address 1:
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross, Main Street

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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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross, 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 44895 61772

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 4461-4561
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GREAT OUSEBURN
MAIN STREET (north-east side)
St.Mary's Churchyard walls and cross

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Walls partly enclosing St.Mary's churchyard and incorporating base and part of cross shaft. Medieval cross in C18-early C19 wall. Limestone cross; walling partly cobble with brick lacing courses, and partly red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone coping. Serpentine walls, ramped up to square section piers, form churchyard entrance. Walls have flat coping and piers pyramidal caps. Part of cross located approximately ten metres south-east of entrance: octagonal shafting set in square socket stone. Cobble walls, ramped up in places, have cambered coping. Wall on south-east side of Churchyard forms one side of the ginnel known as Tom Hill, which is closed on the other side by the garden wall of Church Hill Farm House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SE4489561772

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Legacy System number:
331831
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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