Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1161844
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1161844
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, CHURCH 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 AUGUSTINE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skirlaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 14170 39705
Details
SKIRLAUGH CHURCH LANE TA 13 NW (west side) 5/34 Church of St Augustine 16.12.66 - I Church. c1401. For Bishop Skirlaw with later additions and alterations. Limestone ashlar with concealed roof. Perpendicular style. 3-stage west tower, 6-bay continuous nave and chancel with south porch to second bay and north vestry to sixth bay. Tower: diagonal buttresses with off-sets, and crocketed pinnacles to top of second stage. Chamfered plinth with quatrefoil band. To west end hollow-moulded sill band. 3-light pointed window in double-chamfered surround with hollow-chamfered hoodmould with label stops which continue as band to sides. Second stage: brattished band. To west side a niche for a statue. Band. 2-light, pointed bell openings with blind trefoil-headed lights below transom level. Band with fleurons and gargoyles. Pierced, traceried and crocketed battlements with crocketed pinnacles. Nave and chancel: buttresses with off-sets surmounted by pinnacles with crocketed finials between bays. Double-chamfered plinth. South side: to second bay an embattled single-low-storey porch. Tudor- arched opening with glass and timber doors. Within a studded plank door within hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded surround under roll-moulded hood with face stops. To fifth bay a pointed plank priest's door in double- chamfered surround under hollow-chamfered hoodmould. Pointed 3-light windows with hoodmoulds with shield stops to each bay and with hollow- moulded sills except to second bay. Windows to second and fifth bays are shorter. Eaves band. Battlemented parapets. North side: to second bay a studded plank door in pointed hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded surround under hoodmould with face stops. To sixth bay a single-bay, low-storey embattled vestry has oblong window with chamfered surround to north side and pointed plank door to west. Otherwise 3-light pointed windows with hollow- chamfered hoodmoulds with shield stops, and with sill band except to sixth bay. Windows to second and sixth bays are shorter. Battlemented parapets. East end has 5-light pointed window with hollow-chamfered hoodmould. All windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds. Interior: Triple- chamfered pointed tower arch with inner shaft otherwise roll-moulded jambs with capitals. Piscina has ogeed arch with roll-moulding and octagonal bowl. 2 corbels to east end. Traces of red wall painting and black inscriptions to south wall and west end. C19 octagonal font. 4 Neoclassical early C19 wall monuments in chancel. Fragments of medieval stained glass incorporated into East window. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 342.
Listing NGR: TA1417539705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 342
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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