Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174486
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174486
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, PARK LANE
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, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Womersley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53231 18984
Details
WOMERSLEY PARK LANE SE 51 NW (south side)
5/21 Church of St Martin 11.12.67
GV I Church. C12 origins with C13 nave and north aisle, early C14 south aisle, porch, transepts, tower and spire, and C15, C18 and C19 additions and alterations including alterations to chancel and addition of north vestry. Restored by Bodley 1895. Magnesian limestone rubble and ashlar with red plain tile, grey slate and stone slate roof. Cruciform on plan. 3-bay nave with clerestory to north side, 2-bay south aisle, 4-narrow bay north aisle, crossing tower and single-bay transepts, 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Entrance to south porch has chamfered, pointed arch under hoodmould with face stops. Porch has stone seats, slit windows to sides and has incised shield and other decoration to left wall. Stone ribbed roof and finial at apex. Within, an C18 fielded panel, pointed double door in double-chamfered surround with roll moulding to head under hoodmould and with worn medieval prayer carved on right jamb. South aisle and transept have buttresses with offsets and continuous sill band. To west of porch are two 2-light pointed windows in double-chamfered surrounds with reticulated tracery, and to east a straight-headed 3-light Perpendicular window. Low, moulded parapets to south aisle and nave. Low north aisle has buttresses with offsets between bays. Aisle and clerestory have mainly 2-light pointed windows with geometrical tracery to heads in double-chamfered surrounds; aisle has one lancet window and one similar square headed window. East window of clerestory has been lengthened. Nave has low, moulded parapet. West end: buttresses with offsets to angles. Plank door under pointed arch with roll- moulding, partly re-cut under re-cut hoodmould. Moulded sill band. 4-light Perpendicular-type window a C19 insertion. Crossing : south transept 3-light south window under hoodmould, a C19 insertion. To gable is remains of canopy of niche for statue. Similar window to east side. North transept has octagonal stair turret to west side. 2-light straight-headed north window with reticulated tracery in triple-chamfered surround. Tower has buttress to north side. Continuous sill band to bell stage. 2-light bell openings to each side with geometrical tracery to heads. Broached spire. Chancel has 2-light windows with geometrical tracery, those to south side are C19. Vestry has 3-light window with Perpendicular-type tracery to head. No east window. Interior. 2-bay south aisle has double-chamfered pointed arcade on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases. 5-bay north arcade has 4 double-chamfered arches and one single-chamfered arch, the 3 inner arches are under hoodmoulds with fleurons and face stops, and sit on cylindrical piers with moulded capitals and water-holding bases. West respond is a recent pilaster. Double-chamfered crossing and chancel arches with hoodmoulds on octagonal responds with moulded capitals and bases. Rood screen, painted arch braced roof to nave, and chancel roof with traceried panels above tie-beams, all c1895 by Bodley. South transept has ogeed piscina and cusped niche for an effigy. North transept has niche for an effigy. Monuments include late C13 reclining effigy of a cross-legged knight in south aisle, thought to be Adam de Newmarch d1287, stone coat of arms above. Baroque cartouche to Tobiah Harvey, d1720. Neo-classical wall monument to Frances Harvey Stanhope d1794, another by R Blore of Piccadilly to Elizabeth Harvey d1824, Organ by August Gern. Early C17 Spanish tiled wall hanging of the Last Supper brought in the late C19. Stained glass by Kempe to south aisle east window and north aisle north window. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp 556-7. L C Ballard, A Short History of Womersley.
Listing NGR: SE5322718984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ballard, L C, A Short History of Womersley, ()
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 556-7
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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