Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131477
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHAPEL LANE
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- 2002-06-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/07035/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131477
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHAPEL 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 ANDREW, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Finghall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 19063 90166
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE RICHMONDSHIRE 5339
SE 19 SE FINGHALL CHAPEL LANE (east side, off)
3/21 Church of St Andrew 13.2.67
GV II*
Church. Mid C12, c1200, mid and late C14. Sandstone rubble, stone slate roof. 3-bay nave with north aisle and west porch, 3-bay chancel with north vestry and heating chamber. Plinth. Quoins. Porch: coursed stone square doorway with timber lintel; ashlar coping at left end. In west wall, chamfered single-light window. Inside porch, stone bench along west wall; on outside of west wall of church, 7 ashlar steps up to board door to former gallery, and plank door in ashlar surround with straight tooling; chamfered single-light west window flanked by C20 triangular buttresses. Nave, south side: C19 window of 2 trefoiled lights; blocked doorway of c1140; 2 windows of 2 trefoiled lights; ashlar coping, double bellcote on east gable. North aisle, from east: C19 window of 2 cinquefoiled lights; chamfered single-light window; blocked quoined segmental-arched doorway; stepped buttress. Double-chamfered single-light west window. Chancel: C14. South side, from west: late C14 window of 2 trefoiled lights with hoodmould with head stops; blocked single-light window; C19 priest's doorway; late C14 window of 2 trefoiled lights with hoodmould with large head stops; ashlar coping and gable cross to east. East end has end buttresses and mid C14 three-light window with reticulated tracery, and hoodmould with head stops. Vestry and heating chamber: single-light east vestry window with voussoired segmental arch; C19 window with segmental-arched head and board door in quoined surround to heating chamber; C19 chimney rising up to north of chancel wall. Interior: 3-bay north arcade possibly of c1200, with round pillars on bases, octagonal abaci and triple-chamfered round arches. Mid C14 chancel arch of 1 order, slightly chamfered with double-curved moulding on north respond capital. C13 octagonal font, tapering as an inverted pyramid, onto a circular base with roll moulding; C17 wooden pyramidal cover with finial. C17 pulpit. Dado panelling of C18 and C19 dates. Communion boards on east wall of north aisle. At north end of altar rail, up against wall, C14 grave cover with foliate cross with branches on stem, also a pair of sheep shears and a book. In west wall, stone with circular panel containing a floriate cross-head. In and near chancel south wall, fragments of C9 sculpture, including part of cross-head and part of crucifixion with expanded arms and knot-work. In south-east chancel window, fragments of medieval stained glass. C17 altar table near priest's door. VCH i, pp 235- 6.
Listing NGR: SE1906390166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 235-6
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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