Church of St Hilda
CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316255
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316255
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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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 ST HILDA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Danby
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 69619 06309
Details
NZ 60 NE DANBY DANBY DALE East side
6/21 Church of St. Hilda 6.10.69
GV II*
Church. C14 tower-porch. Nave rebuilt 1789, chancel added 1848 possibly by Butterfield; restoration by Temple Moore in 1903. Sandstone, the tower large square blocks, nave finely-coursed tooled blocks, chancel ashlar. Graduated Lakeland slate roof with ridged stone copings, finials and gable crosses. Aisled nave with south porch/tower, chancel with short north vestry. West end has 2 stout buttresses flanking large round-headed window with triple keystone and impost blocks; oculus above; small square-headed aisle end windows. At north-west corner external stair to gallery added 1808 (dated on plaque inside window). Plinth around nave; tall keyed round-arched aisle windows. South tower of one tall stage with diagonal buttresses, eaves string with prominent waterspouts to east and west and battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Short extruded west vice with tiny window. Hollow-chamfered, segment-headed doorway. Single tiny light above and paired bell openings with cusped heads. Chancel in Early English style with narrow lancets to north and south and 3-light east window with plate tracery head. Pent vestry under continuous roof. Asymmetrical: vestry and east end each have one straight and one diagonal stepped buttress.
Interior plastered. 4-bay nave. Very tall double-chamfered pointed arcade on round piers, rebuilt by Temple Moore but leaving most of one capital to show the reconstruction was correct. C19 king-post nave roof and arch-braced chancel roof. Panelled west gallery. Minton tiles in chancel and raised sanctuary. In porch and inside door boards giving names of subscribers to the school and benefactors of the parish from C17 to early C19. Medieval grave cover in porch.
Pevsner, N. Riding p. 135.
Listing NGR: NZ6961906309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327939
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 135
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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