Christ Church, Great Ayton

The church, in 2011

Christ Church is the parish church of Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

From the Saxon period to the early 19th century, All Saints' Church, Great Ayton was the local parish church. Between 1876 and 1877, a replacement was built on a new site, with All Saints becoming a mortuary chapel.[1] It was designed by John Ross and Robert Lamb,[2] in a 14th-century Gothic style.[1] Nikolaus Pevsner describes the building as "restless composition, and an uninteresting interior".[3] It was grade II listed in 1966.[2]

The church is built of sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in Decorated style. It has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, a west narthex, north and south aisles, a south porch, a north transept steeple, and a chancel. The steeple has a tower with two stages, angle buttresses, traceried bell openings, and a broach spire with bands of red sandstone and lucarnes. Inside are preserved three pre-Conquest stones, brought from All Saints.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Page, William (1923). A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2. London: Victoria County History. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Christ Church". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.

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