Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316014
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316014
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, 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 SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thixendale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 84221 61070
Details
THIXENDALE MAIN STREET SE 86 SW (south side)
7/104 Church of Saint Mary 1O.1O.66 GV II*
Church. 1868-1870 with vestry added 1875. By G E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes. Ashlar, plain tile roof. High Victorian Gothic. 3-bay nave with south aisle and north porch, 2-bay chancel with vestry to south. Plinth and string course throughout. West end: low apsidal baptistry with trefoil- headed window, flanked by stepped buttresses, with rose window above. To right: 2-light pointed window with cinquefoil tracery to aisle. Porch: moulded doorway with hood-mould with foliate stops. Trefoil-headed north door beneath moulded pointed arch. Hood-mould with foliate stops, carried on banded responds. Nave: 3-light pointed windows to north, single-light trefoil-headed windows to south. Bell-cote to east end of nave. Chancel: 2-light pointed windows beneath hood-moulds with foliate stops to north. To south: vestry with trefoil-headed door beneath hood-mould and small square- headed window to left. East end: 3-light window with trefoil tracery beneath hood-mould with foliate stops to chancel. Vestry: 3-light window with trefoil and cinquefoil tracery beneath hood-mould with foliate stops to left. 3 stepped trefoil-headed windows to right. Interior: 4-bay arcade on piers of quatrefoil section. Fine carved wooden screen of 1873. Font and pulpit with blind panelling. Stone reredos inlaid with green marble. Some fine stained glass, that to east window by Burliston and Grylls, most of the rest by Clayton and Bell. Hutchinson J and Joyce P, G E Street in East Yorkshire, 1981. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE8422161070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328808
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hutchinson, J, Joyce, P, GE Street in East Yorkshire, (1981)
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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