Church Houses Church of St Mary

CHURCH HOUSES CHURCH OF ST MARY, MACKERIDGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296492
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Houses Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSES CHURCH OF ST MARY, MACKERIDGE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296492
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Houses Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH HOUSES CHURCH OF ST MARY, MACKERIDGE 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSES CHURCH OF ST MARY, MACKERIDGE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Farndale East
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
SE 67253 97585

Details

FARNDALE EAST MACKERIDGE LANE SE 69 NE (north side, off) Church Houses 4/53 Church of St Mary 14.7.55 - II Church. 1831, with baptistry added during restorations of 1907-14. By William Stonehouse with restoration and extension by Temple Moore. Herringbone-tooled sandstone on chamfered plinth to south, roughly tooled stone to north; tooled and ashlar dressings; slate roof. West baptistry, vestry and porch, with bellcote; 5-bay nave and chancel. West end: shallow projection to centre, on tall chamfered plinth and with pent roof, contains paired square-headed lights. Similar windows to north and south. Gable-end bellcote has angle turrets with pyramidal caps. Baptistry: projects forward from nave. Shouldered opening to south beneath flat hoodmould. Double board doors are recessed forming a porch within the building. Chamfered and quoined door surround with pyramid stops is square-headed and shouldered, and has segmental relieving arch of voussoirs. Nave: 2 windows to both sides, of paired trefoil-headed lights, with flat hoodmoulds to south. Offset buttresses to east. Chancel: to south, narrow, shouldered priest's door in quoined surround flanked by 2-light windows with curvilinear tracery beneath flat stopped hoodmoulds. To north, window of 3 cusped lights in quoined surround. East end: dwarf clasping buttresses. Pointed window of 3 lights with curvilinear tracery beneath stopped hoodmould. Cavetto-moulded eaves course to all parts. Window surrounds and mullions throughout are chamfered. Coped gables and gable cross to east. Interior: tall pointed baptistry arch with irregularly quoined jambs. Low segmental chancel arch with roll hoodmould on attached columns with imposts cavetto-moulded on underside. King-post roof to nave and barrel-vaulted ceiling to chancel.

Listing NGR: SE6725397585

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
328887
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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