Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1263780
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1263780
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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 MARY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brandesburton
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 11946 47645
Details
TA 14 NW BRANDESBURTON MAIN STREET (north side)
5/16 Church of Saint Mary 16.12.66 - I
Church. C12 chancel, C13 nave aisles and west tower, late C14 south porch. Restored 1892 by W.S. Weatherley. Coursed cobbles, late mediaeval red brick, stone dressings, tiled roofs. West tower, 5-bay aisled nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with north vestry. West tower: 3 stages with chamfered plinth and off-sets and diagonal buttresses. C19 window with ogee tracery to second stage, paired lancets in square-headed opening to belfry. Crenellated parapet. West window of paired lancets in square-headed opening beneath ogee-headed niche. Nave: chamfered plinth and string course. Three 3-light pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery to south aisle; three 2- light square-headed windows with cusped ogee tracery to clerestory. Pointed south door with continuous chamfer and hoodmould. Porch: diagonal buttresses, 4-centred arch to doorway, quatrefoil openings to east and west walls. Crenellated parapet with gargoyles. Chancel: 3-light square-headed window with cusped ogee tracery to west, two 3-light 4-centred windows with C19 tracery in Perpendicular style to east. Chamfered round-headed priests' door with chamfered imposts and continuous hoodmould. East end: dwarf buttress beneath pointed 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould. One surviving lancet to north wall. Remains of earlier gable against nave east gable: coped, with brattished finial. Interior: quadruple-chamfered tower arch on polygonal responds. Nave: C13 north and south arcades with waterholding bases, cylindrical piers (one octagonal to north) and round abaci suppporting pointed double-chamfered arches. Ogee headed piscina to south aisle wall. C15 chancel arch. Chancel: squint to north vestry beneath blocked lancet. Aumbries to north, south, and east walls. Remains of niche with crocketed ogee canopy to north wall. Brasses to William Darrell, Rector, died 1364, and to Sir John de St. Quintin, died 1397, and his wife. Wall monument to Reverend Charles Richardson died 1755: inscription in architrave under broken pediment with coat of arms. Octagonal font reset on C19 octagonal column and base. Much C12 carved stone incorporated in late C19 repairs and alterations to west tower.
Listing NGR: TA1194247643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431476
- 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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