All Saints Church
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, A 170
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316131
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints Church
- Statutory Address:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, A 170
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316131
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, A 170
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:
- ALL SAINTS CHURCH, A 170
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wykeham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 96482 83393
Details
SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (north side)
14/117 All Saints Church
18.1.67 GV II *
Church. 1853-55. By William Butterfield. Dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings and buttresses; slate roofs. 4-bay aisled nave, with clerestory; south porch; chancel, organ loft and vestry. Late C13 style. Buttressed west end has two 2-light windows with foiled Y-tracery separated by a massive buttress with steep offsets. Single foiled lancet above. Aisle west walls have single rectangular lights. Gabled and buttressed south porch contains triple-chamfered pointed opening with moulded broach-stopped jambs, and a quatrefoil light above. Interior of porch has corbelled rib vault with foliate boss to centre. Pointed doorway has hood-mould on foliate corbels. To east of porch are three 2-light windows with Y-tracery, 2 with foils. 3 roundels to clerestory, each enclosing a quatrefoil. On the north side a massive extruded chimney stack with offsets is flanked by two 2-light Y-tracery windows. North side of chancel has a pointed vestry door to left of a foiled Y-tracery window. On the south side are paired windows each of 2 foiled pointed lights beneath Y- tracery. The east window is of 3 lights with foiled pointed heads beneath a continuous hood-mould raked at each end to form gablets. Trefoil light above. East end of vestry to north has paired foiled lights. All window openings are chamfered, in quoined surrounds. Corbel table to chancel. All roofs are steeply pitched. Coped gables to chancel and porch. Gable crosses to chancel, west end and porch. Interior: arcade of double chamfered arches, the westernmost lower than the others. The westernmost pier is of square section and chamfered with broach stops, and has an attached shaft to the eastern face. Remaining piers are octagonal with head stops. Pointed chamfered chancel arch on corbels. Fittings designed by Butterfield include the pulpit, an octagonal font with tester, and brass altar candlesticks. The east window of 1855 is by William Wailes of Newcastle. Choir stalls, altar rails, litany desk and tall candelabra of 1937, by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, the "Mouseman". N Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; pp 404 - 5. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971.
Listing NGR: SE9648283393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 404-405
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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