The Parish Church of St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary, North Bar Within

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1162693
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: The Parish Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:: The Parish Church of St Mary, North Bar Within

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1162693
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: The Parish Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:: The Parish Church of St Mary, North Bar Within

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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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

Details

TA 0339 9/228

BEVERLEY NORTH BAR WITHIN (east side) The Parish Church of St Mary

1.3.50

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.

Six bay aisled nave with west door and south porch. Central tower. Three bay transepts with south east aisle and north east chapel. Five bay aisled chancel with square east end and north chapel.

West front: polygonal angle buttresses with pierced upper stages flank heavily shafted and moulded west door. West wall panelled above seven-light sub-arcuated Perpendicular window. Openwork parapet. Large south porch with two-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, south transept and three west bays of nave. Perpendicular tracery to clerestory windows and east bays of nave aisle. Five-light sub-arcuated Perpendicular east window. Central tower has oculus to lower stage and four-light Perpendicular belfry openings.

Interior: two-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 1864-67 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

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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 - York and the East Riding, (1972), 179-183
Bilson, J, 'St Mary's Church, Beverley' in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, , Vol. 25, (1920), 357-436
Miller, K, Robinson, J, English, B, Hall, I, 'Beverley : an archaeological and architectural study' in Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England :supplementary Series, , Vol. 4 (11), (1982), 46-47

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.