Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329545
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329545
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH 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 NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Guisborough
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 61650 16118
Details
NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH STREET (EAST SIDE)
7/62 Church of 14.6.52 St. Nicholas.
II*
Church, c.1500, on pre-1086 foundation. Aisle walls rebuilt 1790 and largely again during restoration of 1904-8 by Temple Moore. North extensions of 1889. Dressed sandstone; slate roofs in diminishing courses. Perpendicular style internally. West tower, aisled nave, chancel, organ chamber and vestry. Embattled tower of 3 stages has west door and window (glass by A. Fitzgerald Watt, 1908) under single giant arch. 6-bay nave and 3-bay chancel with east window (glass by James Powell of White Friars) and roofs of 1904-8. Original east window, containing medieval glass, reset in south aisle : west wall. Polychrome medieval tiles in floor of dais, by early C16 sculptured table tomb of de Brus Family; originally in St. Mary's Priory. Monument to Thomas Spencer by Gul. Tyler c.1759: a putto standing by an urn in front of an obelisk. (V.C.H. Yorkshire North Riding, Vol. II, 1923, pp. 362-3; N. Pevsner, "....North Riding", 1966, pp. 178-9; B.J.D. Harrison and G. Dixon, "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp. 36-39).
Listing NGR: NZ6165016118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59930
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1923), 362-3
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 178-9
Harrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 36-39
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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