Description

NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH STREET
(EAST SIDE)

7/62 Church of
14.6.52 St. Nicholas.

II*

Church, c.1500, on pre-1086 foundation. Aisle walls rebuilt 1790
and largely again during restoration of 1904-8 by Temple Moore.
North extensions of 1889. Dressed sandstone; slate roofs in
diminishing courses. Perpendicular style internally. West
tower, aisled nave, chancel, organ chamber and vestry. Embattled
tower of 3 stages has west door and window (glass by A.
Fitzgerald Watt, 1908) under single giant arch. 6-bay nave and
3-bay chancel with east window (glass by James Powell of White
Friars) and roofs of 1904-8. Original east window, containing
medieval glass, reset in south aisle : west wall. Polychrome
medieval tiles in floor of dais, by early C16 sculptured table
tomb of de Brus Family; originally in St. Mary's Priory.
Monument to Thomas Spencer by Gul. Tyler c.1759: a putto standing
by an urn in front of an obelisk.
(V.C.H. Yorkshire North Riding, Vol. II, 1923, pp. 362-3; N.
Pevsner, "....North Riding", 1966, pp. 178-9; B.J.D. Harrison
and G. Dixon, "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp. 36-39).

Listing NGR: NZ6165016118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534257

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