Church of Saint Nicholas
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, 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 SAINT NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Birdsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 84140 67779
Details
BIRDSALL MAIN STREET SE 86 NW (north side) North Grimston 3/21 Church of Saint Nicholas 10.10.66 GV I
Church. C12 and C13, C15 east window, with remodelling of south side of chancel in C18. West tower, 4-bay nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel. Tower with clasping buttresses. To west: lancet window with evidence for former triangular hood-mould. Early C13 sculpture of Saint Nicholas, with tunic of tightly folded drapes held over one arm, the other holding a staff. String course. Pointed double belfry openings. String course to plain coped parapet. Weathering line of earlier steeply-pitched roof visible on east face of tower. Nave: opposed north and south round-arched doorways, that to north in plain frame, with a pair of Anglo-Danish affronted beasts in panel over; that to south, in porch, of 2 orders with roll-moulding and nailhead. Square-headed and pointed 2-light windows. Corbel table of Anglo-Danish beast heads to north. Chancel: square-headed windows and door beneath keyed stone lintels to south. 2 lancets to north. East front: 3- light Perpendicular window. Interior: chancel arch of 2 orders with zigzag to outer order. Font: massive Norman drum with reliefs of the Last Supper, the Descent from the Cross, and Saint Nicholas in episcopal robes. C14 coffin slab with elaborate foliate cross in chancel. Monuments: Elizabeth Cracroft, died 1602. Brass inscription plaque surrounded by 4 brass coats of arms in elaborately carved stone surround. Thomas Langley, died 1723: tablet flanked by Corinthian columns, resting on shelf supported by consoles, and carrying a scrolled pediment and achievement. Similar but less ornate memorial to Thomas Langley, died 1697. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE8413667780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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