26 St Saviourgate
26, St Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256699
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 26 St Saviourgate
- Statutory Address:
- 26, St Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256699
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 26 St Saviourgate
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, St Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NN
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:
- 26, St Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60647 51952
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 June 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE6051NE
1112-1/17/987
YORK
ST SAVIOURGATE (South East side)
No.26
(Formerly listed as No.26 The Acomb Christian Fellowship)
14/06/54
GV
II*
Town house, church and hostel at time of listing. Early C18 with early C19 and C20 alteration. For Thomas Fothergill.
MATERIALS: front of white-washed brick in Flemish bond on chamfered plinth, with timber cornice; chamfered quoins, doorcases and dressings of painted stone: rear of red-brown brick. Tiled roof with brick stacks; three flat dormers with 2x4-pane windows at front.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; five-bay front. Central door of six raised and fielded panels with fluted transom and plain fanlight, in round-arched architrave with spandrel paterae: left end passage door of six sunk panels beneath eight-pane overlight in bolection-moulded doorway. Continuous moulded cornice on ground floor breaks over each door to form cornice hood. On ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes, on first floor unequal 15-pane sashes, centre one in eared raised surround: all have painted stone sills and painted brick arches. First floor windows have cast-iron window guards. Dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice with embossed rainwater head with winged cherub head, dated 1740, initialled MF, to left of centre window. Rear: three-storey, twin gabled front. Round-arched staircase window in centre. Other openings altered.
INTERIOR: ground floor: stone-flagged entrance hall and passage; fluted cornices to entrance- and stairhalls; elliptical stairhall arch on pilasters with moulded imposts. Front room left has moulded ceiling cornice and round-headed basket grate in painted stone bolection-moulded fireplace with pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice shelf. In rooms to right moulded cornices survive. Main staircase to second floor has open string, turned balusters and heavy moulded handrail ramped up to square newels: matching dado of raised and fielded panelling to stairwell. Staircase window flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters with triglyph frieze and moulded dentilled cornice. Secondary staircase to second floor has close string, slim bulbous balusters, square newels with attached half balusters and plain handrail. On first floor, moulded plaster ceiling to landing with central rosette in lozenge frame. Other upper floor rooms retain original fireplaces with altered grates, and some panelling, mostly bolection-moulded.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 210).
Listing NGR: SE6064751952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 210
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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