Church of St Wilfrid
CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190900
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190900
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, 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 WILFRID, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Knowle
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46834 87283
Details
KIRBY KNOWLE MAIN STREET SE 48 NE (NORTH SIDE) 4/24 CHURCH OF ST. WILFRID 20.6.66 GV II Church. 1873-4 by G. Fowler Jones. Coursed squared stone, Welsh slate roof. 3-Bay nave with entrance under south-west tower; lower 3-bay chancel with north vestry. Early English style. chamfered plinth; offset butresses between bays; lancet windows, those to nave in stepped triple groups with quatrefoils over lower, outer, lancets and relieving arches; cill band; eaves band; ashlar gable coping and crosses; alternately crested ridge tiles. Tower: 2 stages. Entrance has traceried wooden double door with pointed-arched surround of 3 orders in gabled, coped, projection with fleur-de-lis finial; lancet slit vents; paired louvred belfry openings with impost band; dentilled base to stepped embattled parapet. West window is of 2 lancets and quatrefoil with ball-flower-stopped hoodmould and steps below it leading to shouldered-arched basement doorway. On the north side the nave has a triple lancet window flanked by paired lancet windows and the vestry a pointed-arched doorway flanked by chamfered square-headed lights. East window is of 3 lancets under 3 quatrefoils with head-stopped hoodmould. Interior: stop-chamfered quoined south doorway has board door with decorative iron hinges; corbelled, chamfered, chancel arch; nave roof of collared principal rafter trusses with corbelled curved braces and decorative spandrels; piscina in chancel, and hammer-beam roof. 9 Brasses set in chancel step to members of Danby and Rokeby families (of Kirby Knowle Castle (New building), q.v.) dating from 1676-1766 and one of 1841 and with arms over each. Medieval graveslab with cross, the bottom broken off, near south doorway, and other fragments of decorated medieval masonry are set on ledge of west window. Plaque in porch records the financial contribution of the "Incorporated Society for Building and Churches" made in 1872. the building is on the site of an earlier church. N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, Yorkshire, The North Riding. Victoria County History, North Yorkshire, Vol II, p. 48.
Listing NGR: SE4683487283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 48
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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