Church of St Alban
CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346630
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346630
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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 ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Withernwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 19351 40472
Details
WITHERNWICK CHURCH LANE TA 14 SE (north side) 3/41 Church of St Alban 16.12.66 - II Church. 1855 incorporating fragments of medieval decorative material. By Mallinson and Healey. Banded pebble and reddish-brown brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style with recticulated-type tracery throughout. 4-bay nave with south aisle, south porch and north vestry, 2-bay chancel. West end has buttresses with offsets. Large 3-light pointed window in double-chamfered surround under hoodmould with face stops and brick relieving arch. To west end of aisle an ogeed lancet in double- chamfered surround. Nave has end buttresses with offsets. South aisle: to second bay gabled south porch has pointed-arched, double-chamfered opening with hollow-and-roll moulding to head under hoodmould with reused medieval face stops. Within a pointed, studded double plank door in moulded surround. Stone coping to gable. To first bay a 2-light window otherwise 3-light windows, all in double-chamfered, 4-centred surrounds. North side has buttresses with offsets. To 2 westernmost bays are 2-light pointed windows in double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. Otherwise vestry has plank door in ogeed surround; to east end a 2-light pointed window in double-chamfered surround. Nave has ashlar copings, and twin-light, gabled bell turret to east apex. Chancel has buttresses with offsets. To south side a plank priest's door in ogeed surround otherwise 2-light, pointed windows in double-chamfered surrounds. East end has similar 3-light window under hoodmould with reused face stops. Ashlar copings. Cross at apex. Interior. 4-bay arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases. Double-chamfered, pointed chancel arch, octagonal responds, moulded capitals and bases. C19 octagonal font on shaft. Neoclassical wall tablet, to Matthew Topham d 1823. Fragments of medieval zigzag in the outer north side wall towards west end and to south porch. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 372.
Listing NGR: TA1935140472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 372
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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