Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173545
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VILLAGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173545
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VILLAGE 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleton-le-Moors
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 73480 88094
Details
SE 7288-7388 APPLETON-LE-MOORS VILLAGE STREET (east side) 7/19 Christ Church
GV I
Church. 1863-65. By J L Pearson, for Mrs J Shepherd as a memorial to her husband. Dressed limestone with ashlar dressings. Mansfield stone column shafts and Rosedale ironstone interior details. Slate roof. High Victorian Gothic. 3-bay aisled nave with narthex, apsidal chancel, with mortuary chapel to north and square south-east tower with pyramidal spire. Lancet windows throughout except for rose window in west gable. A string course runs around the nave, chancel and chapel at west door impost level. Ashlar bands and a band of sunk quatrefoils at springing level of nave windows. The narthex projects beneath a pent roof between buttresses and contains an entrance arch of 3 orders with attached shafts with foliate capitals. The apse has shafted lancets set into an arcade on detached shafts of Mansfield stone, with foliate capitals. Tower: 2-light bell openings with attached shafts and lucarnes. Interior: nave arcade carried on square-section piers with embedded shafts at the angles, annulets, and foliate capitals. Inlaid Rosedale ironstone banding and decorative motifs throughout. Arcading on detached shafts to apse and aisle windows. Wooden braced king post roof. Original fittings include pulpit, font, reredos, glass and richly painted organ. A Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson, p 239.
Listing NGR: SE7348088093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Quiney, A, John Loughborough Pearson, (1979), 239
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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