Church of St John of Beverley
CHURCH OF ST JOHN OF BEVERLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310488
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John of Beverley
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN OF BEVERLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310488
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John of Beverley
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN OF BEVERLEY
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 JOHN OF BEVERLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wressle
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 70776 31264
Details
WRESSLE SE 73 SW 5/143 Church of St John of Beverley 16.12.66
- II Church. 1799 with alterations of 1873. Brick in English garden wall bond, ashlar plinth and dressings, Westmorland slate roof. West tower, 3-bay nave, with south porch and north vestry, long single-bay chancel. 3-stage tower with ashlar bands. Rectangular slit windows to second stage. Round- headed belfry openings with ashlar sill band to third stage. Ashlar cornice and embattled parapets. There is an ashlar urinal in the angle of the tower and the south side of the nave. Nave: porch with C19 pointed doorway and hipped roof to south; vestry with pair of square-headed windows to north. Otherwise 2-light pointed Gothic windows, inserted in 1873. Door and windows with returned hoodmoulds. East end: 2-light Gothick window. Nave roof with stone coped gable to west, hipped to east. Chancel roof hipped to east. Interior: very plain. Plaque above door reads:
This church was built on the Site of the Ancient Parish Church of Wressell
in the 39th Year of the Reign of KING GEORGE the 3rd Anno Domini 1799.
The Right Honb1 GEORGE O'BRIEN EARL OF EGREMONT Lord of the Manor. JOHN
BACON SAWREY MORRITT ESQR Impropriator. The REVD GEORGE ION Vicar.
Richard Waterworth of Wressell) Church Wardens James Craven of Newsham )
Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE7077631264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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