Church of St Wilfrid
CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174269
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174269
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, 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 ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Stainley with Cayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30683 63181
Details
SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON MAIN STREET SE 36 SW (east side) South Stainley 2/119 Church of St Wilfrid
GV II
Church of St Wilfrid. 1845 probably by John Oates ofHarrogate. Magnesian limestone; steeply-pitched blue slate roof. 4-bay nave with west bellcote, south porch to bay 1 and a 3-bay chancel. with north vestry. In an Early English style. Plinth. The porch has a roll-moulded pointed arch and attached columns plus hoodmould; the steeply-pitched roof has a coping with an ornate cross finial. 3 paired lancet windows to the nave, divided by buttresses; a roll-moulded string course at window sill level is carried around the building. The chancel has a central chamfered pointed-arched doorway flanked by lancet windows and buttresses. Gable copings to nave and chancel. A 3-light east window, the central light taller with a stepped hoodmould. North side: lancet windows as south side; west end: 2 lancet windows divided by a deep stepped buttress terminating in a corbel supporting the bellcote composed of 4 shouldered arches containing 2 bells, with spire and weather-vane. Interior: moulded stone corbels support large roof timbers in cruck-style construction; the chancel arch is suitably tall and narrow. The church cost £800 to rebuild, the stone coming from quarries on the nearby Stainley Gill. The Rev J B Wayte was the vicar and a few carved stones from the earlier church remain.
Listing NGR: SE3068363181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331626
- 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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