Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174317
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174317
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, 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 MARTIN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bulmer
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 69938 67630
Details
SE 66 NE BULMER MAIN STREET (south side)
3/12 Church of St. Martin 25.1.54 GV I
Church. C11 nave with inserted C12, C15 and C18 features, C15 tower with datestone on parapet of 1637, chancel rebuilt during 1893 restoration by Demaine and Brierley. Sandstone and limestone rubble with some herringbone work to nave, and ashlar dressings. Westmorland slate roof to nave, corrugated iron roof to chancel. West tower, nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. 2-light square-headed window flanked by diagonal buttresses to west front of 3-stage tower. Illegible memorial slab with Greek key border to south face. String course to second stage carries small lancet window to west. Double lancet belfry openings to each face. Later embattled parapet with pinnacles and datestone. Nave: irregular fenestration, consisting to south of 2 deeply-splayed round-headed C11 windows flanking C18/C19 porch, two 2-light and one 3-light C15 square-headed windows and 3 C18 square- headed windows, that to right flanked by 2 headstops and incorporating mass dial in left jamb. Porch contains C12 round-headed door of 2 orders on moulded capitals, and has large memorial slab with Greek key border on external east wall commemorating Christopher Thompson, blacksmith at Castle Howard, died 1773. To north, nave has blocked C12 narrow round-headed doorway of one plain order with hoodmould, beneath 2-light C15 square-headed window, with deeply-splayed round-headed window to left. To extreme left the blocking of arcade arches to a demolished 2-bay north chapel contains two 2-light C18 windows. Chancel: basket-arched priests' door flanked by 2-light C19 square-headed windows. 3-light C19 east window.. Interior contains the head of a Saxon wheel-cross over blocked north doorway. To east end of nave north wall is an effigy of Sir John de Bulmer, died c1270-1280, with shield on left shoulder bearing lion rampant over grave slab with complex relief floriate cross and sword. Flush panel octagonal C18 pulpit. Pevsner "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966. Taylor and Taylor 'Anglo-Saxon Architecture' 1965.
Listing NGR: SE6993867631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, H M, J, , Anglo Saxon Architecture, (1965)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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