St. Mary's Church Beverley, England

Listed Building Data

St. Mary's Church has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1162693
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
1 March 1950
Name
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Location
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, NORTH BAR WITHIN
Parish
Beverley
District
East Riding of Yorkshire
Grid Reference
TA 03150 39805
Easting
503149.5500
Northing
439804.5180

Listed Building Description

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TA 0339 BEVERLEY NORTH BAR WITHIN (east side) 9/228 The Parish Church of 1.3.50 St Mary

GV I

Church. C12 origins, north-east transept chapel c.1280. Otherwise mainly early C14-C15. Tower rebuilt after collapse in 1520 which also necessitated extensive rebuilding of nave.

Magnesian limestone. Lead roof. 6-bay aisled nave with west door and south porch. Central tower. 3-bay transepts with SE aisle and NE chapel. 5-bay aisled chancel with square east end and N chapel.

West front: polygonal angle buttresses with pierced upper stages flank heavily shafted and moulded west door. West wall panelled above 7-light sub-arcuated Perpendicular window. Openwork parapet. Large south porch with 2-light Y-tracery windows and crocketed ogee gable to entrance. Offset buttresses and embattled parapets throughout. Crocketed pinnacles except to chancel. Intersecting tracery to aisle windows of chancel, S transept and 3 west bays of nave. Perpendicular tracery to clerestory windows and east bays of nave aisle. 5-light sub-arcuated Perpendicular east window. Central tower has oculus to lower stage and 4-light Perpendicular belfry openings.

Interior: 2-storey elevation to nave and chancel. Original ceilings, that to chancel dated 1445 with panels depicting 40 English Kings. Early C15 choir stalls with 23 carved misericords. Octagonal marble font of 1530. Several good C18-C19 monuments. Good C19 stained glass including east window by Clayton & Bell and west window made by Hardman to design of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

Principal C19 restorations of 1840s-50s by Augustus Welby Northmore and Edward Welby Pugin and of 1864-7 by Sir Gilbert Scott.

For fuller description see: Bilson, J, St Mary's Church, Beverley. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 25 (1920) 357-436. Pevsner, N. Yorkshire, East Riding 179-183. RCHM Beverley 1982 p.46-7. National Monument Photographs.

Listing NGR: TA0314639800