Church of All Saints
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, B1257
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296551
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, B1257
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296551
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, B1257
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:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, B1257
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleton-le-Street with Easthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 73436 73580
Details
APPLETON-LE-STREET WITH EASTHORPE
B 1257
SE 77 SW (south side, off)
4/11 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
25.1.54
GV I
Church. C11 tower; early C13 chancel, shortened in C15; late C13 north
aisle; south aisle c1300; C19 south porch. Squared calcareous sandstone and
rubble; some rebuilding in sandstone; slate roofs and Roman tile to porch.
West tower with north porch; 2-bay, aisled nave; chancel. Tower of 3 stages
with original west doorway now blocked by round-arched light with stopped
hoodmould. Gabled porch to north side contains late C12 doorway of
2 chamfered orders, the inner on chamfer-stopped responds, the outer on
attached shafts with water-leaf capital to east and crocket capital to west.
Hoodmould with leaf-stops. Trefoil-headed niche over porch contains the
remains of a sculpted Virgin and Child. To south side, blocked rectangular
openings are visible. Paired round-arched bell-openings with mid-wall
shafts and chamfered imposts to second stage; similar, smaller, openings to
third stage with chevron-moulded shafts. Raised bands to second and third
stages, and cavetto-moulded eaves cornice with water spouts. Low pyramidal
roof. South aisle: dwarf buttresses to each end and to centre. 2 restored,
square-arched windows of 3 lights, those to west trefoil-headed, those to
east shouldered. Window to east wall pointed, of 3 trefoil-headed lights
and intersecting tracery, with head-stopped hoodmould. Lancet in west wall.
North aisle: massive offset buttress to centre, with low, blocked opening to
west. Windows of 2 pointed foiled lights with leaf-stopped hoodmoulds flank
buttress. Window to east wall is a lancet in a chamfered opening. Low
parapet to nave roof. Chancel. South side: 2 lancets in quoined, chamfered
surrounds. Pointed hoodmould to west beneath which a C19 memorial tablet to
members of the Hebden family has been set. Dwarf buttress to east. North
side: plank door with timber lintel, and pilaster buttress to east. Square-
arched east window of 3 cinquefoil lights. Interior: semicircular tower
arch on chamfered responds with imposts moulded on the lower edges. North
arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches on a cylindrical pier and keel-
moulded responds with chamfers and leaf-stops. South arcade of double-
chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds, on octagonal pier and half-
octagonal responds; headstop to eastern respond. Pointed, double-chamfered
chancel arch on triple responds, the centre one filleted. Hoodmould, with
headstop to north. In the sanctuary north wall is a round-headed aumbry; to
the south, part of a rounded piscina arch with a rough, projecting bowl
beneath. There is another piscina with a cusped pointed head, in the south
aisle. C12 tub font with C17 tall octagonal cover. Altar table and rails
of 1636-37. Effigies: in the sanctuary are 2 effigies of ladies of the
Bolton family, Lords of Appleton in C14. Monuments: 2 wall tablets on the
chancel north wall by W Stead of York, to Rev Luke Thompson (d1799) and his
wife, Mary (d1794). Pevsner N, The Buildings of England, Yorkshire - The
North Riding, 1966, p 64.
Listing NGR: SE7343773581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 64
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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