Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347029
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347029
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, 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 HELEN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 95896 27305
Details
WELTON COWGATE SE 9527 (south side) 9/65 Church of Saint Helen 7.2.68 II* GV Church. C15 with earlier origins, rebuilt in geometrical style, reusing some older materials, by Sir G G Scott 1862-3. Small coursed oolitic limestone rubble, freestone dressings, graduated slate roofs. 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, central tower with north and south transepts, 3-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave: low chamfered plinth: 2 sets of paired 2- light pointed windows with geometrical tracery under hoodmoulds with foliage-stops to west and face stops to east. Pointed south door of 3 orders: the inner with continuous moulding, the outer 2 on nook-shafts, all under a hoodmould with foliage stops. Plain coped parapet. South porch: massive buttresses flanking pointed opening of 2 orders on nook-shafts. Hoodmould with bishop to west, actress to east. Raised coped gable with Celtic cross finial. West end: angle buttresses. Central west door of 3 orders: the inner a continuous filleted roll, the outer two with similar filleted rolls on nook-shafts, all under a hoodmould with monarch stops. To right and left are buttresses with offsets and spurred gablets. 4-light west window with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould with foliage stops. Aisle windows of 2 lights with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould with foliage stops. Raised coped gable with cross finial. North aisle: buttresses with offsets. Three 3-light windows of 4 centred arches with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmoulds. South transept: angle buttresses with squared offset. Pointed 3-light south window with geometrical tracery under a hoodmould. Similar, smaller 2-light window to east wall. North transept: similar fenestration. Chancel: buttresses with offsets, diagonal buttresses. Three 2-light square-headed windows: two to the east with cusped ogee tracery, that to the west with cinquefoil heads, mirrored upside-down in the upper section of the lights. Central tower: angle buttresses. Small oblong windows to ringing chamber, string course to belfry stage. 2-light pointed belfry openings with plate tracery under hoodmoulds with face stops. Bracketed, coped parapet. Interior: north arcade of 3 pointed, double-chamfered, arches on octagonal abaci and piers: the east respond and pier are C15, the remainder by Scott. South arcade of 3 pointed moulded orders on cylindrical piers in Transitional style. Crossing-arches: C15: pointed, double-hollow-chamfered, on moulded imposts and hollow-chamfered responds. Re-set medieval arch to former north chancel chapel: pointed and hollow-chamfered arch, on C12 scalloped capital to east and C19 stiff-leaf capital to west: keeled responds. Original C13 lancet to chancel north wall. In south-east corner of chancel is a C15 piscina: a short column supports a basin under a 4-centred canopy beneath a brattished parapet. At west end of south aisle is a late C12/early C13 effigy of a cross-legged knight in chain mail. The church contains a fine group of windows by Morris and Burne-Jones, paid for by a local family who were related by marriage to Morris; there is also a startling window by Capronnier.
Listing NGR: SE9589627305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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