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Church of St Nicholas

A Grade II* Listed Building in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.5366 / 54°32'11"N

Longitude: -1.0487 / 1°2'55"W

OS Eastings: 461650

OS Northings: 516118

OS Grid: NZ616161

Mapcode National: GBR PH3Z.RJ

Mapcode Global: WHF8D.V7SJ

Plus Code: 9C6WGXP2+JG

Entry Name: Church of St Nicholas

Listing Date: 14 June 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1329545

English Heritage Legacy ID: 59930

ID on this website: 101329545

Location: Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, TS14

County: Redcar and Cleveland

Civil Parish: Guisborough

Built-Up Area: Guisborough

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Guisborough St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


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

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