Church of Saint Bartholomew
CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083529
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083529
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, 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 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, 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:
- Aldbrough
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 24422 38718
Details
ALDBROUGH CHURCH STREET TA 23 NW (north side) 3/6 Church of Saint Bartholomew 16.12.66 II* Church. C11 or earlier nave, C12 chancel, early C13 tower: considerably rebuilt in late C19. Coursed cobbles with freestone dressing and red brick to tower parapet, slate roof. 3-stage west tower, 4 bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with north chapel. West tower: moulded plinth, angle buttresses, side-alternate quoins, scroll moulded strings between stages. Lancets to first and second stage. Third stage north elevation has unaltered belfry openings of 2 pointed lights with mid-wall shaft under round roll-moulded arch on nook shafts. Remaining elevations have pointed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. Dentilled brick parapet. Nave: buttresses with offsets. Two 3-light square-headed windows with cusped ogee tracery under hood-moulds to west and centre; similar 2-light windows to east and to clerestory. Pointed south door with continuous chamfer. Chancel: 2-light square-headed window with cusped ogee tracery to east: pointed priests' door with continuous wave moulding under reused arch with chevron ornament to left. Over the window is the head to a former slit window decorated with affronted beasts and geometrical ornament. 4-light east window with C19 tracery under elliptical head. Interior: early C13 pointed tower arch of 3 orders (with rolls on hollow chamfers to nave) under stopped hood-mould; moulded capitals, filleted shaft to responds, water- holding bases. Late C19 north and south arcades of round and pointed arches on circular piers with shallow moulded bases. South aisle, north wall: Cll circular Anglo-Saxon sundial with inscription: 'Ulf who ordered this church to be built for his own and Gunware's souls' and small figure of Roman soldier, perhaps C12. North chancel chapel: pointed C14 arch with chamfered imposts. Chest tomb with effigy of Sir John de Mulsa died 1377: shields and quatrefoils under billet ornament to chest. Late C14 effigy of a woman under pointed chamfered arch into chancel. Blocked round-headed slit window with spiral ornament to chancel north wall. C15 font, disused, to nave west end: shallow basin on octagonal pillar with high moulded base said to have been brought from the Church of Saint Hilda, Cowden Parva, now lost to the sea.
Listing NGR: TA2442238718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166464
- 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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