Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253629
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253629
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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 MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cloughton
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 00888 94251
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 May 2025 to reformat the text to current standards.
TA 09 SW
5/63
CLOUGHTON
HIGH STREET (west side)
Church of St Mary
13.12.51
GV
II
Church. 1831, by J Thompson and G Taylor. Restored and extended in 1889-90 by Smith, Brodrick and Lowther. Tooled sandstone on chamfered plinth, with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. West bellcote; five bay nave and continuous chancel; north chapel and organ chamber; south vestry. Pointed two-light west window with Perpendicular-style tracery. Gabled bellcote has three square-headed openings beneath Tudor-arched corbelled hoodmoulds. Nave north wall contains Tudor-arched doorway, with three-light, Perpendicular-style window to east. Further east extension projects and has two cusped lancets in square-headed surrounds. South side extension repeats that in north side, and partly obscures a blocked pointed opening. West return contains Tudor-arched doorway. Nave south wall has three-light, Perpendicular-style window. East window is of five-lights with Perpendicular-style tracery. East ends of flanking extensions contain single cusped lancets in square-headed surrounds. All openings are double chamfered, those to nave cavetto and ovolo moulded. Gables are coped. Catslide roofs to extensions. Gable crosses to bellcote and to east end.
Interior: chapel and organ chamber screened off by arcade of two double-chamfered two-centred arches on one octagonal pier and corbelled responds. Chancel south wall contains marble monument to William Bower and his wife Priscilla, dated 1704. Tablet between palm volutes and surmounted by swan-necked pediment broken by an urn, is inscribed: "They live well, who love well and They die well, who live well"
War memorial tablet by Eric Gill.
Listing NGR: TA0088894251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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