Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316358
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316358
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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 ST MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carlton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE6472024044
Details
SE 62 SW CARLTON HIGH STREET
(west side)
9/11 Church of St Mary
17.11.86
- II
Church. 1861-6. AD 1862 on tower buttress. By J B Atkinson. Sandstone
with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-stage south-west tower with
spire, 6-bay nave with south porch and north vestry, 3-bay chancel. Gothic
Revival with Geometrical tracery throughout. Tower has offset angle
buttresses, stair turret with plank door in shouldered surround and 3-light
window to south side under hoodmould and with nook-shafts. Second stage has
twin-light bell openings. Octagonal splay-footed spire. Entrance to south
porch a plank door within trefoiled surround with foliate decoration on
spandrels. 2 orders of nook-shafts support roll moulding under hoodmould.
Nave and vestry have offset buttresses. Pointed north door under hoodmould.
2- and 3-light pointed windows throughout under hoodmoulds. Chancel has
diagonal buttresses. Pointed priests' door to south side. Single-light
windows under hoodmoulds and with continuous sill band. 4-light window to
east end under hoodmould, quatrefoil to gable. Interior. Nave has hammer
beam roof on corbel shafts with foliate capitals. Pointed chancel arch with
traceried screen. Trefoiled piscina. Wall monuments to Miles Thomas
Stapleton, 8th Baron Beaumont, d1854, by P Macdowell RA, Baroque wall
monument to Nicholas and Mary Stapleton, erected 1738. N Pevsner,
Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 157.
Listing NGR: SE6472024044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326461
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 157
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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