Old Church of St Andrew Guisborough, England
Listed Building Data
Old Church of St Andrew has been designated a Grade II* 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1139759
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 14 June 1952
- Name
- OLD CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
- Location
- OLD CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
- Parish
- Guisborough
- District
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Grid Reference
- NZ 63712 19367
- Easting
- 463712.0000
- Northing
- 519367.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
NZ6319 GUISBOROUGH UPLEATHAM VILLAGE
6/157 Old Church of 14.6.52 St Andrew (formerly listed as St Andrew's Old Church under Upleatham)
II*
Remains of C12 church, comprising west end of nave and west tower dated 1684 on west face. Dressed sandstone; clay pantile roof with stone gable copings. Pointed-arched, chamfered doorway and hood mould in north wall of nave with corbel table at eaves (10 carved human faces and one beast to right-hand corner). South wall has 2 bays of C13 arcade, now blocked. Mid C19 east wall. Roof contains some original timbers including one carved with mystic rose design. Two-stage embattled tower with plinth, string course and louvred 2-light mullioned openings to bell chamber. Interior is plastered and plain. 2 medieval grave covers, part of a sculptured recumbent knight, a late C14 monument in the form of a mural niche containing a worn half-length figure; and the head of an Anglo-Danish cross.
(V.C.H. Yorkshire North Riding, Vol. II, pp 412/3; J.C. Atkinson, "History of Cleveland," 1874. Vol II, pp 91/4; N. Pevsner, ".... North Riding," 1966, p. 377).
Listing NGR: NZ6371219367
