Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166793
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166793
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, 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 ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Copmanthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 56521 46875
Details
SE 54 NE COPMANTHORPE CHURCH STREET (north side)
3/44 Church of St Giles
- II 23.8.78
Church. C12 much altered with chancel of 1889 and C20 additions including west porch. Magnesian limestone ashlar, partly rendered and colourwashed, brick outshut and Welsh slate roof. West porch, nave and chancel in one, C20 parish rooms and outshut to north. Porch contains C12 doorway with chamfered surround and single nook shaft with scalloped capitals supporting arch with ball moulding. C12 bell-turret with twin round-arched openings. Nave and chancel: south side, buttress with offsets between. Mainly single round-headed windows in chamfered surrounds, those to nave under recut hood- moulds, the west-most with single nook shafts supporting roll moulding. One slit window. North side: 2 similar round-headed windows, otherwide obscured by outshut and parish rooms. East end said to be C12 reconstructed to end of C19 extension. Group of 3 stepped round-arched windows in chamfered surround under hood-mould. Interior: glass to east window by Kempe, c1889. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 171.
Listing NGR: SE5652146875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325960
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 171
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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