Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Low Kilburn
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190640
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Low Kilburn
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190640
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Low Kilburn
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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 Mary, Low Kilburn
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilburn High and Low
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 51369 79676
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/10/2018
SE 5179
8/20
KILBURN HIGH AND LOW
LOW KILBURN (east side)
Church of St Mary
20.6.66
GV
II*
Church. C12, C13 and C17 with later alterations including restoration of 1818. Coursed squared stone, Welsh slate roofs. Three-bay nave with west tower, south porch, north aisle and north vestry and two-bay chancel with north chapel.
Tower: 1667 restored 1818; in Perpendicular style; quoins; chamfered plinth; west end has offset diagonal buttresses and elliptical-arched Y-tracery window (probably C19) below cusped light; a cusped two-light window to each side of belfry stage; moulded string, with gutter above it on south side, below embattled parapet with crocketed corner finials.
Nave and chancel have pointed-arched openings; chamfered eaves; kneelers, ashlar coping and cross finials to gables and crested roof ridges. Nave: to left of porch set against nave wall is mid C18 headstone commemorating eight children of Christopher and Elizabeth Sturdy having a segmental pedimented top with dentil and egg-and-dart moulding. C19 porch has doorway below blind opening with defaced crucifixion and C18 sundial in gable; a cusped two-light window to each return; inside, an early C12 narrow round-arched doorway with three orders of chevrons on columns with decorated cushion capitals and billeted hoodmould, partly restored. To right of porch, two two-light Decorated-style C19 windows.
North aisle has offset diagonal buttress at west end; two two-light double-chamfered mullion windows, the western one C20; and a lancet in the west side of the vestry. Chancel: chamfered plinth; restored priests' door with small chamfered two-light window to left and restored lancet to right; C19 east window of three stepped lancets under hoodmould and relieving arches; two restored lancets under sexfoiled circular window to east end of north chapel and a tall two-light double-chamfered mullion window to north side of the chapel.
Interior: recessed round tower arch with imposts; restored late C12 three-bay pointed-arch north arcade on circular columns with simply-moulded bases and water-leaf capitals; C12 elliptical chancel arch of three orders (plain and chevron) under restored billeted hoodmould on columns with decorative bases and cushion capitals (much restored); flanking imposted archway into north chapel are two C13 grave slabs, the northern one having a cross with stepped base and foliated head, hammer and shield, and the southern one having a pastoral staff with flabella. C19 scissor-braced roof trusses. Benefaction boards in tower. In north aisle probably C17 bench pews with knob finials and added baluster-type candlestick holders, and a bell dated 1684 with decorative mouldings to top.
The church was originally a chapel under the Priories of Coxwold, then Newburgh and finally Thirkleby; it became a separate parish church in 1868.
N Pevsner, Buildings of England, The North Riding.
Guide notes in church.
Listing NGR: SE5136979676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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