Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162211
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162211
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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 MARY THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skerne and Wansford
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 06216 56654
Details
TA 05 NE SKERNE WANSFORD
7/90 Church of St Mary the Virgin 20/9/66
GV II*
Church. 1868. By G E Street for Sir Tatton Sykes. Ashlar, flat clay roofing tiles. Gothic Revival style. 4½-bay nave with west bellcote and south porch, 2 bay chancel and north vestry. Nave has chamfered plinth, scroll-moulded string, buttresses to east and west. 2-light pointed windows with tracery in Decorated style to west and to centre, each with stopped hood-mould under relieving arch. 4-light square-headed window to east with cusped tracery. Pointed south door, of 2 orders, in Early English style with nook shafts, dog-tooth, and stopped hood-mould. Raised coped gables with Celtic cross finial. South porch has door with hollow-chamfered mouldings, cinquefoil head, stopped hood-mould and raised coped gable with cross finial. Bell turret has square lower stage surmounted by low octagonal broach spire. 2-light belfry openings with mid-wall shaft, with volutes to capital, under round sound-hole in gablet. 2-light trefoil- headed lucarnes to cardinal elevations of spire; cross finial. Chancel: chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses, scroll-moulded string. 2-light pointed window with tracery in Curvilinear style and stopped hood-mould under relieving arch. Pointed 3-light east window, with intersecting tracery enclosing trefoils, under relieving arch. Interior: 2 circular piers at west end with round bases and abaci supporting pointed double- chamfered arches and stilted arch to centre: bellcote above. Principal- rafter roof to nave with arched braces, side purlins, and windbraces, painted with geometrical and stylised floral designs throughout. Elaborate chancel-screen of 5 trefoil headed arches, under crocketed gablets, supported on twisted marble columns: central cross finial. Sexfoil font, with blank tracery, in Geometrical style, on each lobe, on colonnettes with annuli, round bases, and abaci.
Listing NGR: TA0621656654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166949
- 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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