Church of Saint Mary Old Byland and Scawton, England
Listed Building Data
Church of Saint Mary 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1149196
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 4 January 1955
- Name
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
- Location
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MAIN STREET
- Parish
- Old Byland and Scawton
- District
- Ryedale
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 54897 83590
- Easting
- 454896.7500
- Northing
- 483589.5736
Listed Building Description
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SE 58 SW SCAWTON MAIN STREET (east side)
8/51 Church of Saint Mary 4.1.55
GV I
Church. C12 with C15 insertions and porch and restoration of 1892 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Limestone rubble, stone slate roof. 2-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. West front: restored round-headed window. Wooden bellcote to gable end. To south: porch contains round-headed door of 2 zigzag-moulded orders supported on colonnettes with scalloped capitals. Beaded hoodmould. 3-light square-headed double-chamfered window to second bay. To north: blocked square-headed doorway with narrow single-light round-headed window immediately to left and square-headed windows to extreme left and right. Chancel: to south a blocked square-headed priests' door, and 2 square-headed windows. 2 round-headed windows to north. East end: 3- light trefoil-headed window in square-headed frame with narrow slit window above. Interior: chancel arch flanked by arched niches with nook-shafts for reredoses of lay altars, later converted to squints. To left of altar a niche of uncertain function consisting of a trough and two columns with waterleaf capitals supporting a moulded cornice. To right of altar a single pointed sedile, a square-headed aumbry and a pointed piscina. Font: round, possible Norman on later base, with tall octagonal C17 wooden cover. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE5489683590
