Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155369
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155369
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holy Island
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 12566 41776
Details
NU 1241 HOLY ISLAND
12/18 Church of St. Mary 22/12/69
GV I
Parish Church. C12 and C13 incorporating earlier masonry. Bellcote C18. Random rubble nave, chancel dressed stone, bellcote ashlar. Lakeland slate roof. Nave, aisle, chancel, south porch and north vestry.
West end of nave has large C19 lancet flanked by giant offset buttresses which join above to form an arch. Above this the C18 bellcote with keyed round-arched openings and stone pyramid roof. Smaller buttresses to aisles.
4-bay nave with Victorian south porch. Victorian lancets and one large blocked window. Buttresses between. North side of nave has old vestry to right and 2 windows with Y-tracery. North aisle east window is 3-light.
Chancel south side has blocked priest's door and small low side lancet. 3 lancets with continuous hoodmoulds. East end has 3 stepped lancets with hoodmoulds, buttresses between. 2 lancets and low side window on north side.
Gabled roof with flat coping and cross finials. Vane on bellcote. Aisle roofs low-pitched with parapets.
Interior has C13 south door with continuous chamfer. 4-bay arcades. North arcade of c.1200 with round piers and capitals. 3 chamfered round arches with banded pink and white voussoirs; west bay is pointed arch, a C13 extension.
South arcade has hollow-chamfered pointed arches and octagonal piers. Double chamfered C13 chancel arch. Remains of Saxon chancel arch visible above; also Saxon masonry. Trefoiled piscina in south aisle. Large medieval grave cover set in chancel north wall. East window by Mayer of Munich, chancel south window by Atkinson. Hatchments with arms of Selby, Haggerston and Askew families in chancel. Victorian oil lamps on brackets in chancel. Large C18 baluster font. Painted wood memorial to Jane Moffitt 1797 in south aisle.
Listing NGR: NU1256441775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237727
- 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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