Tower Of Thornton Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Church tower.
Tower Of Thornton Church
- WRENN ID
- night-keystone-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Church tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 26 SE BISHOP THORNTON RIPLEY ROAD (west side, off)
8/24 Tower of Thornton Church
GV II
Tower of Roman Catholic church. C18. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar. 3 stages, with offset diagonal buttresses. Single-light windows to first and second stages, paired lights to belfry stage, all with pointed hoodmoulds. Eaves cornice, battlemented parapet. The first parochial chapel on this site was built c1460 by the devout John Walworth, Forester to the Archbishop of York, who lived at Raventoft Hall (qv). After the split of the Anglican and Catholic churches Raventofts was a main centre of Catholicism in the area, the priest of Thornton church living at the house. By 1720 the church was in a poor state of repair and probably in 1790 was replaced by the presbytery built then in Bishop Thornton village with a chapel in the attic (qv). A new Catholic church was built next to the presbytery in 1809, while the Anglican church was built in 1888. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1967, p 401.
Listing NGR: SE2614264252
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