CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1315267
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1315267
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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:: Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
National Grid Reference:: SE 27541 69291

Details

SE 2769 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY STUDLEY PARK ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS

9/51 Church of St Mary

6.3.67

GV I

Church of St Mary. 1871-78 by William Burges for the first Marchioness of Ripon. Fine-grained grey limestone from the Morcar quarry near Markenfield Hall, interior creamy white limestone from Lord Ripon's own quarries (Crook, p233); grey slate roof. 2-stage west tower with spire; 4-bay nave with clerestory, aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel. A masterpiece of High Victorian architecture in an elaborate Early English style. Among the many striking features are: the south and west doors with extravagant scrolled and figured ironwork; the latter recessed under an unusual segmental arch; the west window of 4-lights with a rose and similar to the east window which is flanked by sculptured groups and surmounted by a crucifix, all details under elaborate crocketed hood-moulds. The tower: belfry windows have gables carried up into the spire; polygonal spirelets; lucarnes; a weather cock crowns the top-most crocket. Interior: lavish, with extravagant use of coloured stone and marbles; carved details painted and gilded, flat surfaces painted with saints, angels, stars and symbols all with the theme of Paradise lost and Paradise regained. Nave arcade of circular piers with 4 Purbeck shafs; the chancel arch has 7 shafts to each side. The chancel represents the ultimate achievement of Burges' eclecticism: the shafts of blue, red and green marble; a lion supports a shaft above the sedilia. Floor of polychrome tiles and mosaics; walls lined with alabaster, a waggon roof and domed east bay with trefoil-headed panels and painted angels. Contemporary fittings include organ reached by stone spiral staircase in the north aisle and the font of Tennessee marble with figures of gilded bronze representing the four ages of man. South aisle: white marble effigy of the first Marchioness of Ripon (d1909) on a chest tomb. The stained glass designed by F Weeks and made by Saunders and Co., sculpture by T Nicholls. The church was built at the west end of the long drive and vista laid out by John Aislabie, replacing the obelisk (qv) as the focal point. It was designed to be viewed from all sides with particular attention to the west side, the principal entrance. The same team of architect, sculptor and designer worked in 1871-2 on the Church of Christ the Consoler in the grounds of Newby hall, for Lady Mary Vyner, a relative of Lord Ripon. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1967, p 504. J Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, 1981, pp 232- 237.

Listing NGR: SE2754169290

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 331055
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mordaunt Crook, J , William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, (1981), 232-237
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 504
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.