Church of St Martin
Church of St Martin, Whenby
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191384
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Martin, Whenby
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191384
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Martin, Whenby
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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 Martin, Whenby
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whenby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 63078 69820
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 June 2026 to correct a typo in the description and reformat the text to current standards
SE 66 NW
8/79
WHENBY
Church of St Martin
17.5.60
II*
Church, now redundant. C15 with C19 and C20 restorations. Ironstone, Welsh slate roofs. Two bay nave and two bay chancel in one with continuous north aisle; three storey west tower; south porch.
Tower: hollow-chamfered plinth; stepped angle buttresses; blocked west doorway with continuously hollow-moulded pointed arch; ringing-floor window of two trefoiled lights with cusped quatrefoil above; two-light flat-headed belfry opening with trefoil cusps; matching belfry opening to south; chamfered single-light belfry opening to north.
Nave: stepped buttresses that between nave and chancel with sundial; crenellated parapet resting on ogee-section string; windows hollow-chamfered, flat-headed and of two segmental-arched cinque-cusped lights, with hood mould with head steps, one window on each side of porch, which has angled buttresses on chamfered bases, rounded arch with deeply recessed moulding on broached capitals, with hood mould, water table of original shallow pitch, C19 gable with sacred monogram, in each side wall two unglazed two-light flat-headed windows, hollow chamfered with trefoil heads to lights and indented spandrels, internal brick floor and bench tables; inner doorway has old door in continuously-moulded pointed arch of two orders, the outer one a double ogee, then a deep hollow, the inner one hollow chamfered, and hood mould with crude head stops.
Chancel: windows as nave but more heavily restored; parapet at slightly lower level than nave, angle buttresses at east end; hollow-chamfered east window of three trefoiled lights with Perpendicular tracery in pointed arch; crenellations stepped up to gable. North aisle: of rubblestone and without crenellations; east window of two cinque-cusped lights with Decorated tracery in pointed arch; on north side, easternmost window flat-headed with large trefoils in two-lights; other north windows match those to south but without hoodmoulds blocked north door between nave aisle windows, continuously chamfered and stopped at the bottom, with uneven rounded arch; west wall of north aisle of ashlar, with buttress in angle with tower, and west window of two cinque-cusped lights with Decorated tracery in pointed arch above and hood mould with cube stops.
Interior: nave arcade of two double-chamfered arches with octagonal pier and matching responds, hollow-chamfered bases, unusually-angular section to capitals, and three face masks on western respond capital; chancel arcade of two double-chamfered arches, lower and narrower than those in nave, with octagonal pier, hollow-chamfered top to bases, capitals similar to those in nave but with different capital to west, with torus shape on alternate facets, and leaf facing east; tower arch tall and narrow, double-chamfered on corbels, with head on that to north; four-centred rere arch to south door; straight-chamfered segmental rere arches to windows; at north side of cast wall of chancel, Perpendicular doorway with continuous hollow moulding; piscina on south wall with asymmetrical chamfered arch similar to that of north doorway and C19 basin and tray; stoup to right of east window of aisle, and in floor below altar, black marble slab indented for four coats of arms and inscription; C15 octagonal moulded font basin on narrow stern; early C19 roof trusses, that between nave and chancel traceried; C15 chancel screen with cinque-cusped lights below Perpendicular tracery, the top rail being an inverted rood beam morticed for a gallery; C17 screen to north chapel with symmetrically-turned balusters above plain panelling, C17 altar table in chapel; old oak chest C16 oak benches, of thick sections of wood and without decoration; George III coat of arms dated 1821 above south door; cast-iron safe door with ogee-cusped tracery on north wall of tower.
VCH ii, pp.213-214.
Listing NGR: SE6307869820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332789
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 213-214
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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