Church of St Wilfred Burnsall, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Wilfred 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1131740
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
10 September 1954
Name
CHURCH OF ST WILFRED
Location
CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, B 6160
Parish
Burnsall
District
Craven
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
SE 03257 61515
Easting
403256.8350
Northing
461515.1983

Listed Building Description

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BURNSALL B 6160 SE 06 SW (east side)

2/91 Church of St Wilfred

10.9.54

  • I

Church. C13, C15, C16, C17 and restored 1858. Ashlar, coursed squared stone. Graduated stone slate roof. West tower, clerestoried aisled nave with south porch. Chancel with vestry and south chantry. Perpendicular 3- stage tower: offset diagonal buttresses. Large arched Perpendicular west window cusped of 3-lights with hoodmould, to right a board door in 4 centred arch surround forming a buttressed porch with small 1-light window above. Second stage has an octagonal sided clock face to west, to south a Perpendicular segmental-arched 2-light window. Chamfered band. Arched belfry windows, cusped of 3 lights, hoodmould. Moulded band. Embattled parapet with 4 small pinnacles to each corner. Nave: Perpendicular, 3 bays. Aisles, embracing the tower, of 4 bays. Plinth, to right of left-hand bay a gabled south porch, offset angle buttresses, arched doorway with column to each side, hoodmould, stone coping with gable cross. Inner board door, arched surround. South aisle: offset angle buttresses. To left a 3-light flat-headed window. To right two 3-light flat-headed windows, hoodmoulds, chamfered parapet. Clerestory: three 2-light flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds. Stone coping, gable cross. Chancel: 3 bays. Small offset angle buttresses. To right of left-hand bay a board door in moulded arched surround, shield in spandrels, flat hoodmould, flanked by arched, cusped 2- light Perpendicular windows, hoodmoulds. To right an arched cusped Y- tracery window of c1300. Stone coping, gable cross. East end: to centre large 3-light arched cusped Perpendicular window with hoodmould. To right a C16 two-light flat headed window with 4-centred arched lights, hoodmould. To left a Y-tracery 2-light window of c1300, below it a board door in chamfered surround with 3-centred arch. Interior: chamfered tower arch, arcades, 3 bays, octagonal piers, double-chamfered arches. Similar chancel arch. Chancel: 2 bays, similar arcades to nave. Font: Norman circular on a square base. Jacobean pulpit on baluster feet. Good C14 alabaster panel of the Nativity in the vestry, also fragments of pre Norman Conquest crosses and hog backs.

Listing NGR: SE0325961510