Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1167634
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1167634
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton in Craven
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 90161 48345
Details
SD 9748 THORNTON-IN-CRAVEN CHURCH ROAD
9/141 Church of St Mary
10.9.54
GV I
Church, probably early C16 (Whitaker records an inscription, of 1510 on tower). West tower, and nave, chancel and aisles under one roof. Rubble to nave, large dressed stones to tower, stone slate roof. The aisle walls are of four bays but not all windowed: short offset buttresses. Windows are straight-headed with round arched lights, 2 or 3 lights each. The east aisle windows (of 3 lights) have hoodmoulds with crude faces carved on the stops. The east chancel window has five cusped lights The tower has a 3-light window at ground level and 3-light louvred belfry windows. Diagonal buttresses. On the nave side a steep roof coping is visible to a previous nave roof. Interior has continuous double chamfered arcades on octagonal piers. Late C19 or early C20 woodwork, and crucifixion east window of 1898 by Kempe. Heavy balustered communion rail is late C17 or early C18. T D Whitaker, History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, 1812
Listing NGR: SD9016348345
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 324519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, (1812)
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