Description

SE 58 SW SCAWTON MAIN STREET
(east side)

8/51 Church of Saint Mary
4.1.55

GV I

Church. C12 with C15 insertions and porch and restoration of 1892 by
C. Hodgson Fowler. Limestone rubble, stone slate roof. 2-bay nave with
south porch, 2-bay chancel. West front: restored round-headed window.
Wooden bellcote to gable end. To south: porch contains round-headed door of
2 zigzag-moulded orders supported on colonnettes with scalloped capitals.
Beaded hoodmould. 3-light square-headed double-chamfered window to second
bay. To north: blocked square-headed doorway with narrow single-light
round-headed window immediately to left and square-headed windows to extreme
left and right. Chancel: to south a blocked square-headed priests' door,
and 2 square-headed windows. 2 round-headed windows to north. East end: 3-
light trefoil-headed window in square-headed frame with narrow slit window
above. Interior: chancel arch flanked by arched niches with nook-shafts for
reredoses of lay altars, later converted to squints. To left of altar a
niche of uncertain function consisting of a trough and two columns with
waterleaf capitals supporting a moulded cornice. To right of altar a single
pointed sedile, a square-headed aumbry and a pointed piscina. Font: round,
possible Norman on later base, with tall octagonal C17 wooden cover.
Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE5489683590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538334

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)