Church of the Holy Cross
CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296322
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296322
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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 THE HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilling East
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 61600 76902
Details
SE 67 NW
6/35
4.1.55
GILLING EAST
CHURCH LANE
(south side)
Church of the Holy Cross
GV
I
Church. Arcade of c1200, early C14 chancel, C14 south arcade, late C15
tower, C19 organ chamber and restoration. Sandstone rubble and ashlar,
Westmorland slate roof. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with north porch, 3-
bay chancel with organ chamber to north. 2-stage -tower with stepped
diagonal buttresses. West window of 4 stepped round-headed transomed lights
beneath pointed hoodmould. Belfry openings of 3 round-headed lights under
elliptical arch to each face. Embattled parapet with pinnacles. North
aisle: C19 windows in Geometrical and Decorated style. North porch: pointed
doorway beneath divided overlight flanked by pilasters carrying concave-
moulded capitals and banded pediment. South aisle: pointed doorway of 2
chamfered orders in 2nd bay. Flat-headed 2-light cusped ogee windows, that
to west being C19. Chancel: to north and organ chamber with 2-light east
window in Decorated style. To south: basket-arched priest's door beneath
Tudor-arched window of 4 stepped round-headed lights. 3-light reticulated
window to left, and 2-light Decorated window to right. East end: C19 3-
light window with reticulated tracery. Interior: arcades on slender I
cylindrical piers with square abaci and pointed arches of 2 orders, those to
north chamfered, those to south plain. South aisle contains C14 ogee-arched
tomb recess with elaborate crockets and sub-cusping. Also in south aisle
east end stone effigies to Sir Nicholas Fairfax, died 1572, and his 2 wives.
At west end, tomb to Sir Thomas Fairfax, died 1828, and his wife: white
marble figure of Piety reclining over 2 urns. 2 deeply incised floriate
cross grave slabs near this tomb. Anon "The Church of the Holy Cross,
Gilling East" n.d. (Church Guide). Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North
Riding". 1966.
Listing NGR: SE6160076902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Church of the Holy Cross Gilling East Church Guide, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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