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CHURCH OF ST HILDA

CHURCH OF ST HILDA, ST HILDA'S STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175457
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HILDA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST HILDA, ST HILDA'S STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175457
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST HILDA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST HILDA, ST HILDA'S STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST HILDA, ST HILDA'S STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherburn
National Grid Reference:: SE 95950 77433

Details

SHERBURN ST HILDA'S STREET SE 97 NE (east side, off) 6/70 Church of St Hilda 10.10.66 GV II

Church. Lower stage of tower, nave and chancel arch early C12; tower arch and north arcade late C12 - early C13; south arcade, porch and upper stage of tower rebuilt during restoration of 1909-12 by C Hodgson Fowler for Sir Tatton Sykes. Squared sandstone, repaired and rebuilt in sandstone ashlar; slate roof. West tower; 4-bay aisled nave and south porch; chancel, organ chamber and vestry. 3-stage, buttressed tower on chamfered plinth. Square- headed west window of 2 cusped lights with panel tracery beneath continuous hoodmould. Reset corbel head to south. Restored second-stage 2-light window to south. Paired bell openings recessed in pointed arches beneath hoodmoulds on all sides. String course to each stage. Cornice, carved with text from Psalms interspersed with fleurons and beasts; embattled parapet with blind tracery and armorial shields. Restored north aisle window of 2 lights with Decorated tracery beneath pointed hoodmould and raked parapet. Restored south aisle window is a cusped lancet beneath crow-stepped parapet. Gabled south porch has 2-centred chamfered opening with bar stops, beneath hoodmould. Much worn sundial above, and reset trefoil stone in west return. Round-arched south doorway of 3 orders incorporating reset beakhead mouldings. Double doors, dated 1912 on lock plate. One 2-light and two 3-light windows with cusped intersecting tracery and corbel-stopped hoodmoulds. Plain parapet. Buttressed north side, on chamfered plinth, has shouldered north door and 4 windows similar to west window. Eaves cornice and plain parapet. Chancel on double-chamfered plinth has blocked original priest's door beneath coved hoodmould. Original low side cusped lancet beneath inserted 2-light Decorated window to west, and similar 3-light window with restored mullions to east. Window further east is C20 rebuild. Organ chamber gable end projects on north side with square-headed 2-light window, and vestry in chancel angle. East end has offset angle buttresses and 3-light Decorated window, sill band and hoodmould. Coped gables with terminal gablets and crosses. Interior:2-centred tower arch of 3 orders, the inner 2 on slender shafts. Moulded capitals and coved hoodmould. Original north arcade of double- chamfered pointed arches, round piers with octagonal moulded capitals and tall plinths. Traces of painted decoration on some columns, and piscina on north side of easternmost pier. Pointed, double-chamfered south arcade with quatrefoil piers, moulded capitals and continuous corbelled hoodmould. Round chancel arch of 3 orders on triple responds with primitive voluted north capitals and scalloped south capitals incorporating religious symbols. Outer arch with lobed chevrons interrupted by defaced head at centre. Pillar piscina at foot of north respond. Carved furniture, donated by Sir Tatton Sykes, includes fine rood screen and choir stalls with creatures in flowers and foliage, pulpit, altar and pewing. Square Norman font, cable- moulded, and with arcading enclosing palm trees. Also C20 octagonal font with tall, richly-carved cover suspended from belfry floor. Brass chandeliers with leafy fronds. Rich nave roof has embattled ties, arch-braced collars and traceried spandrels; ashlar pieces at eaves; moulded and embattled double wall plate. Chancel roof panelled with bosses; principal rafters rest on angel corbels with shields.

Listing NGR: SE9595077433

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Legacy System number:: 329411
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.