Parish Church of St Mary
Parish Church of St Mary, Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133487
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133487
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley
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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:
- Parish Church of St Mary, Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Burley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 17093 46287
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 June 2023 to update the group value statement and to reformat the text to current standards
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MAIN STREET (north side)
Burley in Wharfedale
Parish Church of St Mary
(Formerly listed under Parish Church of St Mary, LS29 7DN, MAIN STREET (North Side), Burley in Wharfedale)
GV
II
Consecrated 1843 after rebuilding. Chancel enlarged, gallery removed and other alterations 1870. Gothic revival of late Georgian style. Coursed rubble. Wide nave without aisles under single roof span with almost flat ceiling. Six tall lancets with dripmoulds on each side. West tower with flanking porches (lancet window and similar doorway to each). Gabled main west door. Lancet window on each exposed side of tower. Smaller upper stage with miniature flying buttresses from pinnacles of lower stage with louvred lancets and pinnacles. Octagonal spire. Chancel has three-light east window and short lancets north and south. Steep-pitched arched wooden roof. Furnishing simple. Octagonal font of inlaid marble. Victorian stained glass in most windows. Wall memorial to William Maude (d 1588) dedicated 1781.
Burley Lodge, No 2 (Highway Cottage) and Chevin House, Nos 4 to 16 (even), Nos 24 to 30 (even) and 30A, No 2 Post Office Yard, St Mary's Church, wall around ground south of mill pond (along Main Street and west side of Corn Hill Lane), and the Malt Shovel Hotel form a group.
Listing NGR: SE1709346287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337658
- 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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