Church of St Nicholas Guisborough, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Nicholas 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1329545
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 14 June 1952
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
- Parish
- Guisborough
- District
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Grid Reference
- NZ 61650 16118
- Easting
- 461650.0000
- Northing
- 516118.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH CHURCH STREET (EAST SIDE)
7/62 Church of 14.6.52 St. Nicholas.
II*
Church, c.1500, on pre-1086 foundation. Aisle walls rebuilt 1790 and largely again during restoration of 1904-8 by Temple Moore. North extensions of 1889. Dressed sandstone; slate roofs in diminishing courses. Perpendicular style internally. West tower, aisled nave, chancel, organ chamber and vestry. Embattled tower of 3 stages has west door and window (glass by A. Fitzgerald Watt, 1908) under single giant arch. 6-bay nave and 3-bay chancel with east window (glass by James Powell of White Friars) and roofs of 1904-8. Original east window, containing medieval glass, reset in south aisle : west wall. Polychrome medieval tiles in floor of dais, by early C16 sculptured table tomb of de Brus Family; originally in St. Mary's Priory. Monument to Thomas Spencer by Gul. Tyler c.1759: a putto standing by an urn in front of an obelisk. (V.C.H. Yorkshire North Riding, Vol. II, 1923, pp. 362-3; N. Pevsner, "....North Riding", 1966, pp. 178-9; B.J.D. Harrison and G. Dixon, "Guisborough Before 1900", 1981, pp. 36-39).
Listing NGR: NZ6165016118
