THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1162693
Date first listed: 01-Mar-1950
Statutory Address: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH BAR WITHIN
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Location
Statutory Address: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH BAR WITHIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Beverley
National Grid Reference: TA 03150 39805
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History
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Details
TA 0339 BEVERLEY NORTH BAR WITHIN
(east side)
9/228 The Parish Church of
1.3.50 St Mary
GV I
Church. C12 origins, north-east transept chapel c.1280. Otherwise mainly early
C14-C15. Tower rebuilt after collapse in 1520 which also necessitated extensive
rebuilding of nave. Magnesian limestone. Lead roof. 6-bay aisled nave with west door and south porch. Central tower. 3-bay transepts with SE aisle and NE
chapel. 5-bay aisled chancel with square east end and N chapel. West front:
polygonal angle buttresses with pierced upper stages flank heavily shafted and
moulded west door. West wall panelled above 7-light sub-arcuated Perpendicular
window. Openwork parapet. Large south porch with 2-light Y-tracery windows and
crocketed ogee gable to entrance. Offset buttresses and embattled parapets
throughout. Crocketed pinnacles except to chancel. Intersecting tracery to
aisle windows of chancel, S transept and 3 west bays of nave. Perpendicular
tracery to clerestory windows and east bays of nave aisle. 5-light sub-arcuated
Perpendicular east window. Central tower has oculus to lower stage and 4-light
Perpendicular belfry openings. Interior: 2-storey elevation to nave and
chancel. Original ceilings, that to chancel dated 1445 with panels depicting 40
English Kings. Early C15 choir stalls with 23 carved misericords. Octagonal
marble font of 1530. Several good C18-C19 monuments. Good C19 stained glass including east window by Clayton & Bell and west window made by Hardman to
design of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Principal C19 restorations of 1840s-50s by Augustus Welby Northmore and Edward Welby Pugin and of 1864-7 by Sir Gilbert Scott. For fuller description see:
Bilson, J, St Mary's Church, Beverley. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 25
(1920) 357-436. Pevsner, N. Yorkshire, East Riding 179-183. RCHM Beverley
1982 p.46-7. National Monument Photographs.
Listing NGR: TA0314639800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 167346
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 179-183
'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal' in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, , Vol. 25, (1920), 357-436
Miller, K, Robinson, J, English, B, Hall, I, 'Supplementary Series 4' in Beverley An Archaeological and Architectural Study, (1982), 46-7
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing