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:
- 1318615
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- 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:
- 1318615
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- 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:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arkengarthdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00304 02700
Details
ARKENGARTHDALE NZ 00 SW 10/2 Church of St Mary the Virgin
GV II Church. 1818, for George Brown, lord of the manor of Arkengarthdale. Coursed rubble, graduated Westmorland slate roof. Commissioners' church in the Early English style. Nave and chancel under one roof, vestry projecting on north side, west tower. 5 bays, of 2-light windows with Y-tracery, divided by thin buttresses; sixth bay with blank window under gable between pinnacles. East window of 4 lights. 3-stage tower, with blank lancets on north and south sides of lower 2 stages, belfrey openings with Y-tracery on third stage. Entry by west door of tower, under 4-centred arch. Interior: large single hall with no aisles or chancel divisions. West gallery supported on quadrilobate wooden columns. Fittings: original font with fluted column supporting small basin and pyramidal cover; also font given by George Gilpin-Brown, 1891. Fragments of stained pitch-pine box pews at west end, the rest made into dado. Pews late C19. Original stained pitch-pine pulpit and simple turned baluster altar rail. Commandment boards. Memorials to George Brown, donor of the church, and Rev John Gilpin. Replaced older church at Arkle Town, which had been undermined by flooding.
Listing NGR: NZ0030402700
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321939
- 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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