Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, LEEDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247825
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, LEEDS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247825
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, LEEDS ROAD
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 MARK, LEEDS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrogate
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30556 54095
Details
SE 3054-3154 LEEDS ROAD
(east side)
700-/27/10000
CHURCH OF ST MARK
II
Parish church c1898 completed c1920. Designed by J Oldrid Scott.
Nave with aisles and south porch, chancel with south chapel and
vestry, plus organ chamber to north. Original plans included a tall
western tower which was never built. Coursed rubble with ashlar
dressings and plain tile roofs. Raised coped gables with kneelers and
finials. Chamfered plinth and red sandstone bands. West front to
nave completed c1920 has slightly projecting central porch with
pointed arch doorway and flanking buttresses, above 2 moulded bands
and then a circular window, in the gable a blind triangular window.
Eitherside large buttresses, gabled with octagonal ashlar tops with
blind arcading and octagonal stone spires. Each aisle has a 2-light
pointed arch window with reticulated tracery. The aisles have 2-light
flat headed panel tracery windows alternating with buttresses, under
a deep parapet with blind tracery panels, 5 to the north and 4 to the
south plus a projecting porch. This porch has diagonal buttresses,
and a deep parapet with checkerboard sides and a blind tracery gable,
pointed arched opening flanked by small lancets. Circular windows to
the sides. Above the nave, has 5 tall clerestorey windows each a 3-
light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery. The chancel has
to the east an elaborate 5-light pointed arch window with reticulated
tracery, below and in the gable panels of checkerboard, eitherside are
2 tall 2-light pointed arch windows with similar plainer tracery. To
the north the organ chamber with a single tall pointed arch window
with checkerboard bonding. To the south the chapel and vestry have
3 3-light windows, one triangular headed, one segmental headed and
the other pointed arched, all with checkerboard gables. Interior: 5
bay nave arcades with moulded arches which die into the circular
piers. Tall chancel arch with chancel steps and very low ashlar
screen wall. Fittings include good quality wooden roofs throughout.
Coloured marble pulpit reredos and War Memorial, and carved stone
octagonal font. C19 wooden choir stalls, screens, panelling and organ
case.
Listing NGR: SE3055654095
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382332
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/166050
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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