Church of St Laurence
CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167989
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167989
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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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 LAURENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Misperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 77923 79545
Details
KIRBY MISPERTON VILLAGE SE 77 NE 7/18 Church of St Laurence 10.11.53
GV II *
Church. C14 nave, south aisle, vestry and tower lower stage; porch and belfry rebuilt c1838; chancel rebuilt in 1875, by C Hodgson Fowler. Sandstone ashlar incorporating fragments of C10 carved stone; stone flag roof. West tower; 4-bay nave, south aisle and south porch; chancel and vestry. 2-stage tower has diagonal offset buttresses. 2-light west window with chamfered mullion beneath flat hoodmould. Pointed louvred bell openings paired beneath round arches in square-headed surrounds. Raised string courses to belfry and beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Wrought-iron weather-vane. South aisle west window of 3 cusped lights with panel tracery beneath segmental arch. Embattled porch has pointed opening with hoodmould. Hollow-chamfered pointed south doorway beneath hoodmould contains nail-studded sunk-panelled door. Embattled south aisle has diagonal and intermediate offset buttresses, and 3 square-headed windows of paired cusped lights beneath panel tracery. East window repeats that to west. Nave north side has 3 restored Perpendicular-style windows and moulded eaves cornice. Windows in buttressed chancel south side reproduce those in south aisle. Moulded eaves cornice over band of carved rosettes. Gabled vestry projects on north side. Pointed door with hoodmould in gable end. Window in west return of 2 cusped lights in square- headed opening; similar window of 3 lights in east return. Buttressed east end has pointed 3-light window beneath hoodmould. Interior: pointed tower arch altered and closed by screen. South arcade of double-chamfered arches dying into octagonal piers without capitals. 2-centred tower arch of 2 orders, the inner on half-octagonal responds. Octagonal font on C19 pedestal.
Listing NGR: SE7792379545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329280
- 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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