Church of Saint Martin

CHURCH OF SAINT MARTIN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1161970
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Martin
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT MARTIN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1161970
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Martin
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF SAINT MARTIN

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT MARTIN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Yapham
National Grid Reference:
SE 78885 51961

Details

YAPHAM SE 75 SE 5/63 Church of Saint Martin 26.1.67 - II*

Church. Probably C13, raised in C19. Random rubble with some ashlar, partly rendered, later alterations in brick. Timber bellcote. Clay tile roof. 5-bay nave and chancel in one, west bellcote and south porch Diagonal and angle buttresses with offsets. C19 three-light west window with rendered brick mullions. South elevation: to west, a small segmental- headed window with iron glazing bars: remaining 2 windows are square- headed of 3 lights with C19 brick mullions. Pointed south door with continuous chamfer. Segmental headed door with incised heart to keyblock of arch: the heart bears an inscription (not now legible). Pointed 3-light east window with C19 tracery. Louvred bellcote. Raised coped gables on shaped kneelers. Interior: C18 rectangular pulpit of raised and fielded panels with elegant brass candleholders. C12 font: shallow circular basin on a cylindrical pier on an unusual broad shallow base: perhaps a millstone. C18 turned baluster altar rails and early C19 pews.

Listing NGR: SE7888551961

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Legacy System number:
167751
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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