Description

YORK

SE6051NW SHAMBLES
1112-1/28/1128 (North East side)
14/06/54 Parish Room of St Crux and wall
attached to north-west corner

GV II*

Parish room, incorporating minimal remains of the parish
church of St Crux. 1888 re-using early C15 masonry. Magnesian
limestone ashlar and rubble; tile roof with ashlar stack,
stone copings and trefoil gable finials.
PLAN: Rectangular.
EXTERIOR: re-used west doors are panel-traceried in 4-centred
moulded arch between single cinquefoiled windows: all have
coved hoodmoulds, doorway with head stops, window stops
foliate. Over door, square-headed window of paired
cinquefoiled lights and flat hood. South side has four similar
windows. Reset east window has cinquefoiled lights with panel
tracery in 4-centred casement moulded surround. North wall
incorporates masonry from former church, including broad
chamfered plinth. Wall extends approximately 4 metres from
north-west corner to rear of Nos 22 and 23 The Shambles (qv),
forming south side of passage from The Shambles to
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate: blocked 4-centred doorway at west end
beside small tomb recess beneath low 4-centred arch.
INTERIOR: inner lobby formed by panelled screen surmounted by
reset pedimented overdoor with pulvinated frieze and dated
central date of 1671: cartouche of arms draped with swags in
tympanum. Notable monuments salvaged from former church and
reset in the Parish Room, include:- Sarah Rhodes, d.1813, by
the Fishers of York; Sir Tancred Robinson, d.1754, by Robert
Avray of York; Thomas Court, d.1803, by Plows; Sir Robert
Watter and wife, dated 1610; Thomas Clifton, d.1754; Robert
Belwood, d.1694; Thomas Bowes, d.1777, possibly by Fisher;
Henry Waite, d.1780, by Fisher; and Richard Hudson, d.1802, by
Chambers of Scarborough. Two hatchments to Herbert family. 5
carved corbel-heads, re-used, support roof trusses.
The parish church of St Crux was demolished in 1887.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 11).

Listing NGR: SE6049751832

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Parish Room of St Crux at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549428

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)