Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, THE MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314960
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, THE MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314960
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, THE MAIN STREET
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 STEPHEN, THE MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldwark
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46742 63329
Details
SE 46 SE ALDWARK THE MAIN STREET 7/2 (west side) Church of St Stephen II
Church. 1846-53. E B Lamb. Alternating courses of red brick in herringbone pattern and light-coloured cobbles with sandstone ashlar dressings and interior. Stone bracketed eaves cornice. Plain tiled roofs with diagonals picked out in fishscale tiles creating a grid of diamond shapes. Stone coping. The plan is an example of this architect's interest in central emphasis. Single bay chancel, wide square crossing with corners treated separately, short apsidal transepts and aisleless nave. Small scale 2-stage tower with low spire situated to north of the nave. It has angle buttresses, stepped and cogged eaves and a stone bracketed cornice. The monogram E B L and the date 1853 in stone to the west wall of the tower recurs above the entrance and to the chancel east wall. 4-centred chamfered stone entrance situated between the tower and nave has panelled wooden door with tracery head. The 4 stone crossing piers are square, chamfered from a height of c. 75 centimetres with stone corbels to support the elaborate wooden roof. Nave roof structure of king post, tie beam and arched braces on corbels. 4-centred windows with cusped lights except for the east rose window and chancel oculi and the 3-light 2-centred west window with 'Perpendicular' tracery and glass by Kempe 1885.
Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, p58.
Listing NGR: SE4674263329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 58
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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