Church of St Agatha
CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, EASBY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150665
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agatha
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, EASBY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150665
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agatha
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, EASBY
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 AGATHA, EASBY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Easby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 57782 08686
Details
EASBY EASBY NZ 50 NE (north side) 7/3 Church of St Agatha 23.6.66 - II Church, built as private chapel, incorporating mausoleum. 1881 by J Fowler for the Emerson family. Snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; tiled roofs; timber tower top with iron crest. Early English style; small scale. West tower; continuous nave and chancel with dividing buttress; octagonal mausoleum at east end; north vestry. Multi-moulded pointed-arched west doorway in tower, under hoodmould with carved stops. Timber bell stage above, and shingled broach spire with iron crown and vane. Lancet windows, tinder hood- moulds, to nave and chancel. Narrow linking bays from chancel to mausoleum hold north door and south memorial cross to Anne Amerson, d.1880, in a cusped gabled niche. Mausoleum has pointed blank arcading with foliate capitals; and pointed roof. Interior: 2-bay nave and raised l-bay chancel. Braced collar-beam roof with ashlaring at eaves. Internal stair to small west gallery. Arcaded stone reredos and carved stone pulpit. Good stained glass: figures of saints, prophets, apostles and angels by Powell Bros of Leeds. Mausoleum not accessible at time of survey but said to have shelves for coffins inside. Pevsner: Yorkshire, the North Riding
Listing NGR: NZ5778208686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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