Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150321
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, VILLAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150321
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, VILLAGE 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, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunsforths
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44321 64871
Details
DUNSFORTHS VILLAGE STREET SE 46 SW (north side,off) Lower Dunsforth 3/4 Church of St.Mary II Church. 1860. By Mallinson and Healey. Hammered sandstone on chamfered plinth with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings; stone slate roofs. 4- bay nave and south-west tower; chancel, and north organ chamber and vestry. Geometrical style. West end: offset diagonal buttresses. 3-light pointed window beneath corbel-stopped hoodmould. Sill string. 3-stage, buttressed tower: double-chamfered pointed arch with corbel- stopped hoodmould leads to south porch. Nail-studded south door, with fine wrought ironwork, in pointed chamfered opening. Cusped lancet in lowest stage to west. Extruded tower staircase to east. Second stage has single rectangular lights to east, west and south, beneath clock faces with round hoodmoulds to west and south. Bell-openings are paired louvred lancets with notched cusped heads, in pointed openings with pointed corbelled hoodmoulds. Chamfered belfry string, and band of trefoil tracery beneath broach spire with wrought iron weathervane. East of tower are two 2-light windows with corbel-stopped hoods, over chamfered sillband. North side repeats south side fenestration without hoodmoulds and sillband. Chancel: two south side windows, one of 2 lights, one single, over chamfered sillband stepped up beneath easterly window. On north side projecting gabled vestry has single-light window with notched cusped head in gable end. Shouldered doorway in broach-stopped surround in east return. In chancel east of vestry single-light window. Buttressed east end: pointed window of three notched cusped lancets and notched trefoil tracery. Corbel-stopped hoodmould; sill string, stepped down on each side of window. Gable crosses at both ends of nave, and east end of chancel. All openings are quoined. Interior: tall pointed chancel arch, double-chamfered, on half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals. Hoodmould on corbelheads. In the vestry is a re-used C12 round arch, beakhead-moulded, on slender cylindrical shafts with scalloped capitals: outer moulding of rosettes set on C19 corbels. Also, carved capital of pomegranates and leaves set in wall.
Listing NGR: SE4432164871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331819
- 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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