Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150316
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150316
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE GREEN
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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.
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, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Roecliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 37562 66019
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338 SE 36 NE ROECLIFFE THE GREEN (north side, off)
2/49 Church of St Mary
15.3.66
GV II*
Church. 1843 by R H Sharp for Andrew Lawson of Aldborough Manor. In neo- Norman style. Coursed squared limestone, red tile roof. Single cell building with 3-bay nave and very shallow chancel, west bellcote and north- east vestry. The large plank door to bay 1 has a ring handle; the doorway is of 2 round orders, the attached columns having cushion capitals. 3 large raking buttresses to south and 2 to north walls. Roll-moulded round-arched windows throughout, narrow windows to chancel. The west window is flanked by colonnettes. The bellcote has a pitched roof and single bell. Massive stone copings to gables. Interior: the barrel-vaulted ashlar roof rises directly from the side walls. A thick semicircular roll-moulding on nook- shafts with cushion capitals denotes the shallow sanctuary which is reached by 5 black and white marble steps. Much reused C16 and C17 black oak: the octagonal pulpit and reading desk with geometric panels and balusters, 3 carved panels in the squire's pew on the south side, dated 1619, and linen- fold panelling on the east wall and between nave and vestry. The vestry doorway is ogee-headed with traceried carved door. More early woodwork in the vestry: carved friezes in relief with biblical scenes including nativity, flight into Egypt, David and Goliath and Salome. Other wood carvings include heads of putti, swags and classical capitals. The vestry corner fireplace has a round arch, the voussoirs carved with crude representations of faces and animals. The late C19 brass wall plaques of the Lawson family and the east window showing the Virgin and Child with Latin inscription by Barnett of York were being removed at time of resurvey, as were the original raking pews built against the north, south and west walls, surrounding a set of benches in the middle. The church is maintained by the Redundant Churches Fund and undergoing restoration at time of resurvey. The Jacobean pulpit came from Holy Trinity Hull, the C15 vestry door and the marble sanctuary steps from York Minster following the 1829 fire there. The church is considered to be a remarkably enterprising essay in the neo-Norman style for this period, especially in the use of the barrel vault. R H Sharpe also rebuilt the street frontage of Aldborough Manor for the Lawson family.
Listing NGR: SE3756266019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331806
- 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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