Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, GUISBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150639
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, GUISBOROUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150639
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, GUISBOROUGH 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, GUISBOROUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ayton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 55705 10848
Details
GREAT AYTON GUISBOROUGH ROAD NZ 5510 (west side) 11/41 Christ Church 23.6.66 - II Parish church, replacing the medieval church on Low Green (qv). 1876-7 by Ross and Lamb. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone copings. Cruciform with aisles and north transept tower; south porch, west narthex. Decorated style. 4-bay nave with porch in second bay. Ornamen- tal porch gate with wrought iron panels. Tudor-arched inner door. Nave windows have varied tracery; low stepped and sloped buttresses between; end angle buttresses. West narthex (or galilee) has 8 grouped cusped windows with detached shafts between, paired in centre under steep ornamental gables; shouldered doorway in south and 2 traceried windows above and a wheel window in the gable end. North transept tower of 2 tall stages has sloped angle buttresses and traceried bell openings. Spire, banded in red sandstone, with lucarnes. Extruded vice whose roof fades into tower. Chancel windows and buttresses similar to nave; all windows under hoodmoulds with leafy stops. Interior: 5-bay arcade with alternate round and octagonal piers, carved capitals and high drum bases. Roll-moulded arches under hoodmoulds. Chancel arch has multiple rolls and rests on corbels. Walls plastered. Arch-braced wood barrelled roof, the chancel panelled and painted. Traceried chancel and reredos panelling.
Listing NGR: NZ5570310843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332969
- 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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