Church of St Cuthbert and St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT AND ST OSWALD, WINKSLEY BANKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150588
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert and St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT AND ST OSWALD, WINKSLEY BANKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150588
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert and St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT AND ST OSWALD, WINKSLEY BANKS ROAD
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 CUTHBERT AND ST OSWALD, WINKSLEY BANKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winksley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 25239 71254
Details
SE 27 SE WINKSLEY WINKSLEY BANKS ROAD (west side) 5/122 Church of St Cuthbert and St Oswald
- II
Church of St Cuthbert and St Oswald. 1917 by Connon and Chorley for Jane, Baroness Furness, in memory of her husband Christopher, the first Baron Furness who died at Grantley Hall in 1912. Gritstone, stone slate roof. 3-bay nave with narrow north and south aisles incorporated into it. Large west tower of 3 stages with porch and stair turret against the south side, and another porch against the north side. 2-bay chancel with vestry to south and organ bay to north. Perpendicular style. Double board south door with wide strap hinges under deeply-chamfered arch; curvilinear tracery to belfry windows; elaborate Perpendicular tracery to 3-light nave windows with shallow arches; 5-light east window. Wide buttresses, irregular indented parapets to tower, nave and chancel, projecting bands at floor levels and over belfry windows to tower. Interior: the aisles form low tunnels beneath buttress walls linking the piers with the outer walls. Marble corner columns support wooden vaulted ceiling at west end, beneath tower. Nave and chancel roofs of large timbers. Wide double-chamfered chancel arch. Font, pulpit and low screen white veined marble. Finely carved pew-ends with varied traceried panels. The walls of the west end carry memorials to the Furness family of Grantley Hall. The earlier church stood on the north west, in the graveyard. It had been built or restored c1500 by Marmaduke Huby, Abbot of Fountains Abbey and again in the C18. Stone front the c1500 church is incorporated into the west wall of the present tower, including 2 inscriptions in Latin, the 3-light west window and a niche with crocketed canopy. The system of roofing the aisles was probably copied from Fountains Abbey church. W J St John Hope, Fountain Abbey, Yorkshire, 1900, p21. The architects Connon and Chorley also built St Aidan's Church, Hellifield, North Riding. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, West Riding 1967, p 554.
Listing NGR: SE2523971254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hope, WH, Fountains Abbey Yorkshire, (1900), 21
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 554
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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