Description

YORK

SE6051NW CHURCH STREET
1112-1/28/169 (South East side)
14/06/54 St Sampson's
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
St Sampson's Social Centre for Old
People)

GV II

Formerly known as: Church of St Sampson, Girdlergate.
Parish church, now Day Centre. Late C15 tower retained in
rebuilding of 1845-48; third stage added to tower in 1910.
Church made redundant in 1969, converted to day centre 1974.
C19 rebuilding by Frederick Bell.
MATERIALS: magnesian limestone; parallel roofs of tile and
pantile to church, and stone slate roof to vestry.
EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel with east vestry, continuous 3-bay
aisled nave with north and south doors, on weathered and
chamfered plinth; internal west tower. Building encircled by
diagonal and intermediate 2-stage gabled buttresses with
offsets. Triple-gabled east end has 2-centred windows of 3
lights, chancel window with cusped intersecting tracery, north
aisle window curvilinear tracery, and south aisle window
cusped ogee-headed lights and panel tracery. Sill-string
beneath chancel and north aisle windows. Vestry has board door
to south, in shouldered opening, and 2-light chamfered mullion
window to north, in chamfered opening. Westernmost bay of
north side has reset C15 traceried door in moulded 2-centred
arched doorway. Windows are of 2 cinquefoiled lights in
square-headed double chamfered openings; those in eastern bays
have ogee heads with panel tracery above embattled transoms,
the others 2-centred heads and mouchette tracery.
South side repeats north side, with pointed south door of six
raised and fielded panels in re-used moulded doorway. All
windows and doorways have hoodmoulds on block corbels. 3-stage
embattled and buttressed tower has 4-light west window in
pointed chamfered opening beneath hoodmould on foliate stops.
Belfry openings to north and south are paired louvred lights
with trefoiled heads, deeply recessed in splayed round-arched
openings; to west, restored canopied niche containing a statue
of St Sampson. Each face on third stage has opening of 3
trefoiled lights, blocked below chamfered transom by stone
panels pierced by cross-loops, louvred above, and with panel
tracery in the 4-centred head. Aisle windows are of 3 lights
in chamfered openings with 2-centred heads, that to north with
cusped intersecting tracery, that to south with cinquefoiled
lights and panel tracery.
INTERIOR: 5-bay north and south arcades of double chamfered
pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and
chamfered bases, westernmost columns attached to tower piers.

Tower piers are octagonal and ogee-stopped on to square
chamfered bases. Tower arches die into piers, inner order to
east arch springing from heraldic demi-angels. Single order
rere-arch to west window springs from similar angel to north,
and from defaced angel wing to south. Pointed board door in
narrow doorway beneath hoodmould at east end of south aisle
leads to vestry. At east end of north aisle, trefoil-headed
piscina. In blocking of chancel arch, east side, reset
octagonal stoup with pendant base and lead lined basin in
arched recess: shaped marble tablet commemorating church
rebuilding in 1848. Benefaction board in architrave with
broken pedimented head, repainted in 1844. C19 roofs
incorporating re-used C15 bosses.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 44-46).

Listing NGR: SE6038651911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Sampson's Church at Wikipedia
• St Sampson's Church official website
• Wikidata Q26550425

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)