Church of Saint John the Baptist
Church of Saint John the Baptist, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167755
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Main Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167755
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Main 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 Saint John the Baptist, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Ayton
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 99132 84952
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 July 2024 to reformat the text to current standards.
SE 9984
8/17
EAST AYTON
MAIN STREET (north side)
Church of Saint John the Baptist
18.1.67
GV
II*
Church. Early C12 nave and chancel arch; C12 tower with rebuilt upper stages; C13 chancel altered in C15 and partly rebuilt C18; C15 windows and buttresses to nave; south porch of 1634 (on datestone); C19 vestry.
Sandstone rubble, with rebuilding in sandstone ashlar; pantile roof, with slate roofs to porch and vestry. West tower, partly built in nave; south porch; chancel and north vestry. Three-stage embattled tower has a single lancet to lowest stage to west, and four lancet bell openings to upper stage. Gabled porch with flat-headed opening contains a C12 round-arched doorway of a single order with beakhead moulding. Two C15 two-light flat-arched windows to right and one to left. Two similar windows, rebuilt, to chancel, flank a blocked priest's door. C13 lancet to right. C18 Venetian window in heavy plain surround to east end. No openings to north side but there is a blocked door to the right of the vestry. Coped gables and plain kneelers.
Interior: early C12 semicircular chamfered chancel arch with plain imposts. Tower arch has stepped imposts but was probably altered to the present crude ogee in C15. C12 tub font has moulded arcade in shallow relief of semicircular arches on columns with capitals and bases.
Listing NGR: SE9913284952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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