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Hovingham
Hovingham is a large village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the Howardian Hills and about 7 miles (11 km) south of Kirkbymoorside.
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Hovingham Primary School
Hovingham Primary School is a former school in Hovingham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The school and attached teacher's house were built in 1864. An extension was added in 1880, to provide a primary schoolroom. The building was grade II listed in 1987. By 2022, the school had no pupils and in 2023 it was closed down, against local objections. At the time, it was proposed that it would be converted to a community use.
The school and house are built of stone with Welsh slate roofs. The school has a single storey, an open schoolroom to the east, and an extension to the north. In the centre of the main block is a three-light transomed window flanked by paired trefoil-headed windows. On the right return is an oriel window. The entrance on the left has a hood mould, over which is an inscribed plaque, and to its left is a window with a dated lintel and a half-dormer above. The house has two storeys, three bays, and an outshut on the left. It contains a bay window and trefoil-headed windows. Both buildings are surrounded by railings.
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All Saints' Church, Hovingham
All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Hovingham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The church was built in the 11th century, from which period the tower survives. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1860, in a 13th-century style, by Rohde Hawkins. The tower was re-roofed in about 1970. The church has been grade II* listed since 1954.
The church is built of limestone with a Westmorland slate roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, and contains a round-arched west doorway with free-standing shafts and four orders. Above are string courses, a 9th-century carved cross, a round-headed window and slit windows in the middle stage, and above are narrow double bell openings, a 10th-century wheel cross, an east clock face, and a corbel table. The south doorway is Norman, with two orders, and in the south wall of the chancel is a re-set round-arched doorway.
Inside, the reredos is a stone slab carved in about 800, but very worn from previously having been set in the south wall of the tower. It depicts eight human figures under an arcade, with a plant scroll at the bottom, incorporating carvings of birds. It is described by the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture as one of the "most complex and ambitious" carvings of its period in the area, and possessing an "ease and delicacy". A 10th-century carved cross was stolen in 2015.
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Hovingham Hall
Hovingham Hall is a country house built in the Palladian style in the village of Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England. It has been the seat of the Worsley family and the childhood home of the Duchess of Kent. It was built in the 18th century on a site the Worsleys have occupied since the 16th century.
It is built of limestone ashlar with Westmoreland slate roofs to an L-shaped floor plan. An attached stable wing forms the main entrance. The hall is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England. A Tuscan temple and the ornamental bridge over a waterfall in the grounds of the hall are both listed Grade II. The wall to the north and the east of the hall and a pigeoncote to the north are both also Grade II listed.
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Hovingham railway station
Hovingham Spa railway station was located just north of the village of Hovingham in North Yorkshire, England and opened on 19 May 1853. Regular passenger service ceased on 1 January 1931 but freight traffic and occasional special passenger trains continued until complete closure on 10 August 1964. It was part of the Thirsk and Malton (T&M) rail route, which paralleled today's B1257 road from Hovingham to Malton.
The station had a single platform on the up side of the line, which was originally very low, but which was in 1865 partially raised to the NER standard height of 2 feet 6 inches (760 mm). The station offices were incorporated in the stationmaster's house, a two-storey brick building. The goods yard, mainly on the up side of the line, had up to six sidings which served the coal drops, two warehouses, a cattle dock, and another loading dock, and handled timber traffic. In the 1950s goods traffic increased due to limestone from nearby Wath quarry being in demand from the steel industry. The goods yard was extended in 1948 with a new loading dock. The limestone traffic practically ceased by 1960 when the stone was not needed any more for lining the steel furnaces.