Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314992
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314992
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton Watlass
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23244 85299
Details
THORNTON WATLASS - SE 28 NW 3/105 Church of St Mary 22.8.66 - II Church. C15 and mid-late C19, later work probably by G Fowler Jones. West tower; nave, with south porch, north aisle and transepts; chancel. Rubblestone, ashlar, limestone and sandstone with Welsh slate roof. Tower: C15 Perpendicular style. 4 stages. Offset clasping buttresses with stair tower in that to south-east having chamfered lights. 2nd stage has trefoil- headed 1-light window. 3rd stage has 1-light pointed-arched window, belfry has 3 1-light trefoil-headed windows set in a double-chamfered surround with flat lintel above each light, corbelled cornice with embattled parapet, pinnacles to each corner. Rest of church C19 in the Geometrical style with pointed-arch windows. Nave: 2 2-light windows with hoodmoulds. South porch: board double-door in pointed-arch surround; angle buttresses. Transepts: 3-light window with hoodmould. Chancel: 3 1-light cusped windows. Diagonal buttresses to east end. Stone coping and crosses to gables. East window: 3-light windows, central one taller, all with trefoil tracery with circles in heads of arches and hoodmoulds. Interior: tower has a quadripartite rib-vault, with sunk quadrant moulding.
Listing NGR: SE2324485299
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333615
- 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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