Church of St Stephen Fylingdales, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Stephen 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1148706
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
6 October 1969
Name
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
Location
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, CHURCH LANE
Parish
Fylingdales
District
Scarborough
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
NZ 94162 05940
Easting
494162.0300
Northing
505939.5116

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

FYLINGDALES CHURCH LANE NZ 9405 16/52 (east side) 6.10.69

  • Church of St Stephen I Former Parish Church. 1821 rebuilding on medieval site. Course herringbone-tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings. Purple slate roof. Single-cell preaching box with small sanctuary; South porch and north vestry are early additions. Gothick style. Open-pedimented porch has segment-arched entrance with rusticated voussoirs. Sundial above has dates 1736, 1864 and 1919 with various initials. Wood side benches; and wide 6-panel double door with interlaced fanlight; keystone largely concealed by barrel vault of porch. 5-bay nave has pointed-arched windows, with glazing bars and interlaced heads, in architraves with imposts. All rest on a cill band except for shorter window above door. Small square-headed door in south chancel wall; east window similar and flanked by big stepped diagonal buttresses. North nave wall has 3 short windows, similar to that above door, lighting the gallery. West windows similar to east. Vestry has 15-pane fixed light with 2 opening panes. OSBM on south-eash corner of nave. West bell-cupola had only its damaged wood frame remaining at time of survey. Interior: Complete late Georgian fittings. Panelled gallery, around north and west sides, rests on Roman Doric columns. Lateral south pulpit has sounding board and stairs with turned balusters and ramped handrail. Complete box pews, including one named for the Farsyde family with coat of arms. Various memorial tablets to the Farsyde family. Small early C18 font with low, cornical open cover.

Listing NGR: NZ9416105939