Church of St Paulinus, Presbytery and Attached Outbuildings

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BROUGH WITH ST GILES BROUGH PARK SE 29 NW 4/16 Church of St Paulinus, presbytery and attached outbuildings

GV II*

Former Roman Catholic church, presbytery and attached outbuildings. Dated 1837. By Ignatius Bonomi for William Lawson. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Church: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Vestibule and school-rooms on ground floor; church on first floor: nave and chancel in one, north tribune serving as family pew, north vestry (connecting internally with presbytery). West end: angle buttresses, gabled at top. Central Early-English style doorway of 2 shafted orders, with crucifix above. On first floor, 5 stepped lancet windows under semicircular label. Trefoil in gable. South elevation: bays divided by gabled buttresses. Ground floor: cross-windows with depressed-trefoil heads except in blank fifth bay. String. First floor: in first bay, paired lancets in pointed arch; second to fourth bays, 3 stepped lancets in round arch; one lancet in fifth bay. East end: 3 ground-floor windows as on south side; 5-light first-floor window and trefoil as at west end. House, at east end: double-depth plan; 2 storeys, 3 bays. South elevation: ground-floor openings have shouldered lintels. Central studded board door below 8-pane overlight. Paired-sash windows. String. First floor: paired trefoil-headed lights under semicircular continuous hood-moulds. Coped parapet. Stack with 5 chimneys to left end, and stacks with 2 chimneys to each gable to right. Right return: 2 external stacks. Walled yard to rear with single-storey stables and other outbuildings to same design as house. Interior: church, ground floor: vestibule with central octagonal columns, hatchments of Lawson family, 2 staircases up to first floor. First floor: inner shafting, with foliage on capitals, reflects window detailings. North side: a 2- and 3-light window with inner shafting. Arcade to tribune of 2 round arches, separated by trefoil-headed doorway, with low screen wall with trefoiled arcading (based on tomb of Walter de Gray in York Minster), and date above. Main roof of semicircular braces supporting collars with crown-posts. Early-English style stone altar of 5 trefoiled arches (based on tomb of Walter de Gray). Below it, sarcophagus containing the remains of St Innocent, found in the catacombs at Rome, and presented to William Lawson by Pope Gregory XVI. The trefoil-arched reredos by Milburn of York was installed to commemorate the church's Jubilee in 1887 (Bulmer). The grisaille coloured glass in the East window by Willimont is a copy of that in the Five Sisters Window at York Minster. Stained glass in the 4 south windows by Wailes, 1857-62. Stained glass in the north-west window by H M Barnett of Newcastle, 1880. In the tribune, an Cll font with rope motif. Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890), p 395. John Cornforth, "Brough Hall, Yorkshire", Country Life (1967), pp 894-8 and 948-52; VCH i, p 301.

Listing NGR: SE2155298106

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 301
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 395
Country Life in 6 July, (1967)
Country Life in 6 July, (1967), 948-52

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