Church of Holy Cross
CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314939
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314939
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF 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 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:
- Whorlton
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 47787 02012
Details
NZ 40 SE WHORLTON CHURCH LANE Swainby South side 9/167 Church of 23/6/66 Holy Cross GV II Parish Church, 1877 by T.H. Wyatt, replacing the earlier church of the same name (q.v.). Coursed pecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; plain tiled roofs with tiled ridges and stone gable copings; snecked stone spire. Nave with north aisle, chancel with north vestry, north-west tower. Early English style with plate tracery. Tower of 3 stages has extruded vice in west corner to nave North door; 2 lancets above, and clock. Paired louvred bell-openings in shafted 2-centred arch. Stepped angle buttresses, eaves corbel table and broach spire with lucarnes and vane. 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel on south. 2-bay north aisle and gabled vestry with small door. Interior: plastered with stone features. North arcade has 2 wide chamfered and moulded 2-centred arches on round pier and half-round responds. Arch-braced collar-beam roof. Tiled nave floor. Stone and marble pulpit and base of chancel screen. Wood upper screen, in very high arch, is World War I memorial. Arch has side shafts with carved capitals. Polished limestone raised chancel floor. Stained glass in East window and one south window by Kempe, 1879 and 1903. Also a window with Ss Cecilia and Ursula by A.K:Nicholson, 1923. Another with warlike saints commemorating the Marquis of Ailesbury and General Gordon of Khartoum, 1886.
Listing NGR: NZ4778702012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333226
- 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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