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Christ Church

A Grade I Listed Building in Appleton-le-Moors, North Yorkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.2832 / 54°16'59"N

Longitude: -0.8728 / 0°52'22"W

OS Eastings: 473480

OS Northings: 488094

OS Grid: SE734880

Mapcode National: GBR QLBX.TC

Mapcode Global: WHF9N.KLLS

Plus Code: 9C6X74MG+7V

Entry Name: Christ Church

Listing Date: 5 June 1985

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1173545

English Heritage Legacy ID: 328377

ID on this website: 101173545

Location: Appleton-le-Moors, North Yorkshire, YO62

County: North Yorkshire

District: Ryedale

Civil Parish: Appleton-le-Moors

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

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Description


SE 7288-7388 APPLETON-LE-MOORS VILLAGE STREET
(east side)

7/19 Christ Church

GV I


Church. 1863-65. By J L Pearson, for Mrs J Shepherd as a memorial to her
husband. Dressed limestone with ashlar dressings. Mansfield stone column
shafts and Rosedale ironstone interior details. Slate roof. High Victorian
Gothic. 3-bay aisled nave with narthex, apsidal chancel, with mortuary
chapel to north and square south-east tower with pyramidal spire. Lancet
windows throughout except for rose window in west gable. A string course
runs around the nave, chancel and chapel at west door impost level. Ashlar
bands and a band of sunk quatrefoils at springing level of nave windows.
The narthex projects beneath a pent roof between buttresses and contains an
entrance arch of 3 orders with attached shafts with foliate capitals. The
apse has shafted lancets set into an arcade on detached shafts of Mansfield
stone, with foliate capitals. Tower: 2-light bell openings with attached
shafts and lucarnes. Interior: nave arcade carried on square-section piers
with embedded shafts at the angles, annulets, and foliate capitals. Inlaid
Rosedale ironstone banding and decorative motifs throughout. Arcading on
detached shafts to apse and aisle windows. Wooden braced king post roof.
Original fittings include pulpit, font, reredos, glass and richly painted
organ. A Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson, p 239.


Listing NGR: SE7348088093

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