Church of Holy Ascension
CHURCH OF HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166604
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166604
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH STREET
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 HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Settle
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 81951 63880
Details
SETTLE CHURCH STREET SD 8063-8163 10/7 Church of Holy Ascension II Parish church, 1836-38 by Thomas Rickman in Early English style. Ashlar, slate roof. Aligned N-S. South tower and adjoining vestry, 5 bay nave, 2 bay chancel with projecting rectangular apse and side chapel on east. East front entrance porch at base of tower has 2-light arch supported by engaged columns with crocket capitals. Double wooden doors. 3 stage tower has rectangular chamfered windows above porch and louvred belfry opening with pointed arch and thin hoodmould. Embattled parapet, above which continues a 4 stage semi-octagonal stair turret to 1 ft with 8 hexagonal pillars supporting a spirelet and ball finial. 5 lancet windows to nave and 2 to side chapel, all with thin hoodmoulds and trefoil stops. Lights are separated by a stepped buttress with angle buttresses at junction with east wall. Corbel table. North end: gabled with gabled apse having 4 lancet windows as on east front and an octofoil rose window above. West wall 2 lancet windows to chancel, 5 to nave and 1 to vestry with buttresses as on east front. To left are steps down to machine pit for organ which was formerly powered by a stream running under the chancel. Chimney stack for vestry on right. South end gabled with 4 ground floor lancet windows and tall lancet in gable with cross at apex. Round window to left tower and stair turret to right. Late single storey lean-to for boiler. Interior: marble wall tablet in porch in memory of employees of Midland Railway killed during the construction the Settle to Dent Head line 1869-76. Queen post roof with braces and trefoil decoration in spandrels, with tie beams supported on moulded stone corbels. Marble inlay to apse, wrought iron chancel screen, 1860s. Marble pulpit with surround on trefoil headed arches and marble font raised on 4 pillars with crocket capitals, both 1867: South gallery with date 1838 and painted panel with Royal arms of Victoria. In west nave wall is stained glass window in the style of Burne-Jones. Source: W A Shuffrey. The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven (1914), pp.205-214.
Listing NGR: SD8195163880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324296
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Shuffrey, W A, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven, (1914), 205-214
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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