Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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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 ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 94291 82127
Details
SE 9380 BROMPTON-BY-SAWDON CHURCH LANE (north side)
13/9 Church of All Saints
18.1.67
- I
Church. C14 west tower and nave; C15 arcade, south aisle and chancel; south porch of 1895 in memory of Sir George Cayley. Dressed sandstone with slate roof. West tower; 3-bay aisled nave; south porch; chancel and north chapel. The 3-stage tower has diagonal off-set buttresses and a north-east vice. Single light to lowest stage of west face, and single square-headed lights to the second stage. Bell-openings are paired ogee-arched lights beneath pointed stopped hood-moulds. Octagonal broach spire with lucarnes and weather-vane. Embattled gabled porch has diagonal buttresses and 2-centred arched opening beneath pointed hood-mould. Fine C14 studded and traceried south door. Nave: 3-light Perpendicular windows. Buttressed north wall incorporates portions of C13 masonry and a pointed doorway with imposts, one with foliate moulding. 3 square-headed 2-light windows. Chancel: 3-light Perpendicular windows to south; 2-light windows with renewed tracery to north. Rebuilt east window of 3 lights. To the north of the window a C13 standing figure and a C14 seated figure have been reset in the masonry. The north and south aisles and north chapel have embattled parapets; the parapet to the nave south side and the chancel is plain. Coped east gable and gable cross. Interior:.on the ground stage of the tower, springers for an uncompleted vault survive. Narrow, pointed tower arch. Nave and chancel arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with plain capitals. Pointed chancel arch on half-octagonal responds. At the east end of the south aisle two C12 scalloped capitals have been set into the wall. Well-preserved painted organ case and gallery of 1893 by Temple Moore. C13 circular font with traces of cable moulding on a cylindrical pedestal. Monuments. North aisle: a tablet dated 1580 to James Westrop; a wall brass to Elizabeth Cayley, d1688. South aisle: wall monument to various members of the Sawdon family who died between 1782 and 1820, by C Fisher of York; wall tablet to Ann Harland, d1844, by Matthew Noble. Chancel south wall: elaborate wall monument in high relief with broken pedimented surround and Latin inscription to Sir William Cayley, d1681; bust to Elizabeth Sarah Cayley, d1805, by Chambers of Scarborough. Stained glass: a window in the south wall of the chancel, of 1885, which is a precise rendering of Raphael's "Sermon of St Paul at Athens" from the Sistine Cartoons. William Wordsworth was married in this church to Mary Hutchinson, on 4 October 1802. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; p89.
Listing NGR: SE9429282129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 89
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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