Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/994 (South East side)
14/06/54 Church of St Saviour and attached
gates and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
Church of St Saviour)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
Railings to north-west and
north-east sides of Church of St
Saviour)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Church of St Saviour-in-the-Marshes ST
SAVIOURGATE.
Parish church, now educational resource centre; attached
railings and gates forming northern and western boundaries of
former churchyard. C15 arcades and west end; north and south
aisles rebuilt 1844-45; vestry of 1878. Church made redundant
in 1954 and converted to present use in 1991. C19 rebuilding
by RH Sharp with vestry by WG Penty.
MATERIALS: magnesian limestone with re-used gritstone plinth
to north side; tiled roofs.
PLAN: aisled continuous 2-bay chancel and 3-bay nave with
south vestry and west tower.
EXTERIOR: triple-gabled east end has partly blocked chancel
window of 5 cinquefoil headed lights and 3 tiers of panel
tracery in double chamfered opening; aisles windows are of 3
trefoil-headed lights with reticulated tracery: all windows
have 2-centred heads and hollow chamfered hoods. Round-arched
doorway with C20 board door to north of chancel window. On
north side, moulded and hollow chamfered doorway in western
bay has double doors of trefoiled panels in 4-centred head,
beneath coved hoodmould on defaced shield stops: square-headed
window of 2 trefoiled lights over door. North and south sides
have 2-stage buttresses between pointed windows of 3 double
transomed and trefoiled lights with panel tracery and hollow
chamfered hoodmoulds. Both sides have moulded eaves courses.
On south side, gabled projecting vestry in western bay has
2-centred doorway and square-headed window of 2 trefoiled
lights. At west end, 3-stage buttressed tower has double
transomed west window of 3 cinquefoiled lights and panel
tracery, beneath coved hoodmould. Second stage has 2-light
panel-traceried window deeply recessed in 4-centred opening in
west face. Belfry openings are of 3 louvred lights in
4-centred heads. Shallow extruded staircase on south face lit
by glazed slit lights. Coved strings to belfry and embattled
parapet. Gabled aisles have panel-traceried windows of 3
trefoiled lights, that in north aisle above square-headed

window of 3 trefoiled lights.
INTERIOR: north and south arcades of five pointed double
chamfered and broach-stopped arches on octagonal piers and
responds with moulded bases and capitals. Tower arch of two
hollow chamfered orders with hoodmould dies into
semi-octagonal responds. North of east window, former vestry
door has chamfered 2-centred rere-arch: to south is piscina
recess with trefoiled ogee-arched canopy. Tower stair has
chamfered doorway with 4-centred head and plank door: second
stage floor carried on reset C12 grotesque corbels. In tower,
two illegible plank boards in ogee-headed surrounds with
crocketed finials and fluted sills. C15 roofs to chancel and
nave said to survive above C19 ceilings.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: diagonally set square section railings
and standards with fig-shaped and spike finials respectively;
two pedestrian gates of similar design.
Railings listed on 24/06/83.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 46-49).

Listing NGR: SE6059051890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Saviour's Church, York at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20128209

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