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Latitude: 54.2057 / 54°12'20"N
Longitude: -0.8068 / 0°48'24"W
OS Eastings: 477923
OS Northings: 479545
OS Grid: SE779795
Mapcode National: GBR QMTT.33
Mapcode Global: WHFB2.LK05
Plus Code: 9C6X654V+77
Entry Name: Church of St Laurence
Listing Date: 10 November 1953
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1167989
English Heritage Legacy ID: 329280
Location: Kirby Misperton, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, YO17
County: North Yorkshire
Civil Parish: Kirby Misperton
Built-Up Area: Kirby Misperton
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Kirby Misperton St Laurence
Church of England Diocese: York
KIRBY MISPERTON VILLAGE
SE 77 NE
7/18 Church of St Laurence
10.11.53
GV II *
Church. C14 nave, south aisle, vestry and tower lower stage; porch and
belfry rebuilt c1838; chancel rebuilt in 1875, by C Hodgson Fowler.
Sandstone ashlar incorporating fragments of C10 carved stone; stone flag
roof. West tower; 4-bay nave, south aisle and south porch; chancel and
vestry. 2-stage tower has diagonal offset buttresses. 2-light west window
with chamfered mullion beneath flat hoodmould. Pointed louvred bell
openings paired beneath round arches in square-headed surrounds. Raised
string courses to belfry and beneath embattled parapet with crocketed
pinnacles. Wrought-iron weather-vane. South aisle west window of 3 cusped
lights with panel tracery beneath segmental arch. Embattled porch has
pointed opening with hoodmould. Hollow-chamfered pointed south doorway
beneath hoodmould contains nail-studded sunk-panelled door. Embattled south
aisle has diagonal and intermediate offset buttresses, and 3 square-headed
windows of paired cusped lights beneath panel tracery. East window repeats
that to west. Nave north side has 3 restored Perpendicular-style windows
and moulded eaves cornice. Windows in buttressed chancel south side
reproduce those in south aisle. Moulded eaves cornice over band of carved
rosettes. Gabled vestry projects on north side. Pointed door with
hoodmould in gable end. Window in west return of 2 cusped lights in square-
headed opening; similar window of 3 lights in east return. Buttressed east
end has pointed 3-light window beneath hoodmould. Interior: pointed tower
arch altered and closed by screen. South arcade of double-chamfered arches
dying into octagonal piers without capitals. 2-centred tower arch of 2
orders, the inner on half-octagonal responds. Octagonal font on C19
pedestal.
Listing NGR: SE7792379545
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