Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHESTER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150888
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHESTER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150888
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHESTER LANE
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 LAWRENCE, CHESTER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Sigston
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 41661 94668
Details
KIRBY SIGSTON CHESTER LANE SE 49 sw (east side, off) 4/14 Church of St Lawrence 31.3.70 - I Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel and north aisle, C18 tower, restoration and south porch added in 1893. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate roof. Plan: west tower, 3-bay nave with south porch and north aisle and 3-bay chancel. Tower: 3 stages; plinth, bands between stages, plain rectangular belfry windows with latticed openings, eaves band, embattled parapet with obelisk pinnacles to each corner. Gabled south porch: chamfered pointed arch, stone coping; inner south door flat headed with C17 board door. Nave: to left a clasping pilaster buttress, to right an offset setback buttress. Left-hand bay has thin C13 lancet, to right is south porch, to its right are two C19 two-light pointed arched cusped windows with hoodmoulds. North aisle: offset angle buttresses to each end. To left-hand side a 3-light C19 window. Pointed 2-light west window. Chancel: south side; between bays offset angle buttresses. To left a small pointed arched opening. Central bay has similar opening, but reuses Norman round arch for head. Right-hand bay has a 2-light C17 flat-headed mullion window; 2 right-hand bays have continuous sill band. Moulded cornice. Plain parapet, gable cross. C19 east window: Perpendicular in style, 3 lights, pointed arch with hoodmould; to each side can be seen remains of C13 lancets. Below it is a small offset angle buttress. To north side of chancel is a blocked 2-bay arcade with octagonal columns and chamfered pointed arches. Capitals decorated with salamanders. Interior: 4-bay north arcade, 3 east bays have round columns, waterleaf capitals, round arches moulded with dogtooth decoration, that to west is smaller with a pointed arch. Similar chancel arch. 2-bay blocked north chancel arcade as described on the outside but interior has a hoodmould, the central stop has a head, those to each end have squatting griffins. Font: dated 1662, set on a fluted octagonal plinth, round moulded shaft, octagonal bowl with date and geometrical and flower patterns. Good baroque wall tablet to Thomas Lascelles, 1728, cartouche with putti heads, a skull, convex inscription plate. Effigy of a lady, early C14.
Listing NGR: SE4165494666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332446
- 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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