Listed buildings in Foxholes, North Yorkshire explained

Foxholes is a civil parish in the former Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains three listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Foxholes and Butterwick and the surrounding countryside, and the listed buildings consist of two churches and a farmhouse.

Key

-GradeCriteria
II*Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
IIBuildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
St Nicholas' Church, Butterwick
54.1298°N -0.4844°W
The church, which incorporates some 12th-century material, was restored and extended in 1882–83 by G. Fowler Jones. It is built in sandstone with some red brick, and has a slate roof. The church consists of a nave and a chancel in one unit, and a south porch, with a bellcote on the west gable. The bellcote is gabled and contains two round arched openings and has a cross finial. The porch has a Tudor arched doorway and a scalloped bargeboard.
Glebe Farmhouse
54.1277°N -0.4854°W
The farmhouse has a cruck-framed core, it is encased in whitewashed chalk on brick footings, and has a pantile roof. There is a single storey and attics, and three bays. The windows have top-opening lights, and in the attic are three flat-roofed dormers. Inside, there are three pairs of upper crucks.
St Mary's Church, Foxholes
54.1448°N -0.4555°W
1866The church, designed by G. Fowler Jones in Neo-Norman style, is in sandstone with limestone dressings, some Mansfield stone, and a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a north aisle, an apsidal chancel, a vestry, and a southwest tower. The tower has four stages, string courses, lancet windows and roundels, and round-headed bell openings, above which is a scalloped cornice and a pyramidal roof with a weathercock. The porch is gabled, and contains a round arch with nailhead moulding, shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, an impost band and a hood mould.

References

Sources

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