St Paul's Church, Hensall
St Paul's Church is the parish church of Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
Until the mid-19th century, Hensall formed part of the parish of St Laurence's Church, Snaith.[1] In 1854, St Paul's Church was completed, having been commissioned by William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe and designed by William Butterfield. Butterfield also designed the nearby Red House and Hensal Primary School.[2] The church was given its own parish in 1855.[1] Paul Thompson describes the church as "a compromise between Cowick and Pollington", both churches Butterfield completed in the same year.[3] Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "very plain".[4] The church was grade II* listed in 1967.[2]
The church is built of pinkish-red brick with stone dressings and a grey slate roof. It consists of a nave, narrow north and south aisles, a southwest porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north vestry, and a northwest tower. The tower has a doorway with a pointed arch, a gabled stair turret, slit windows, two-light bell openings, a cogged eaves band, and a pyramidal roof. Inside, most original features survive, including the pews, chapel screen, piscina, Mintons floor tiles, organ, octagonal pulpit and font, and mosaic reredos, which was restored in 1970.[2][4]
See also
- Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district)
- Listed buildings in Hensall, North Yorkshire
References
- ^ a b Royle, Edward; Larsen, Ruth (2006). Archbishop Thomson's Visitation Returns for the Diocese of York, 1865. Borthwick Institute. ISBN 9781904497172.
- ^ a b c "Church of St Paul". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ Thompson, Paul (1971). William Butterfield. Routledge and K. Paul. ISBN 9780710069306.
- ^ a b Harman, Ruth; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2017), Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22468-9