Little Smeaton (Hambleton)

Little Smeaton est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.

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Little Smeaton, Hambleton

Little Smeaton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Great Smeaton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on elevated ground near the River Wiske, which is a tributary of the River Swale. The parish population at the 2011 census was 187.

St Eloy's Church, Great Smeaton

St Eloy's Church is an Anglican church in Great Smeaton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Great Smeaton at the time of the Domesday Book, and the font is from this period. The oldest part of the current building is the nave, dating from the 13th and 15th centuries. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1862 by G. E. Street. It was grade II listed in 1970. It is the only church in England dedicated to Saint Eloy. It is built in stone with a Welsh slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south aisle, a south porch, and a lower chancel with a north vestry. At the west end is a bellcote with arcaded sides, and a tall pyramidal roof. The porch is gabled and has an entrance with a pointed arch, a chamfered surround under a relieving arch, impost bands, stone coping, and a cross.

Smeaton Manor

Smeaton Manor is a historic building in Great Smeaton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The country house was designed by Philip Webb for Arthur and Ada Fitzpatrick Godman, and constructed between 1877 and 1879. The middle of its three chimneys was later removed, annd the main staircase was replaced in the 1950s. Morris & Co. decorated the house and supplied the carpets and curtains, the work since having been destroyed. The garden was laid out to a design by Webb. The house and its stables were separately grade II listed in 1953. The house is built of red brick with a moulded cornice, overhanging eaves, and a hipped pantile roof. It has two storeys and attics, and five bays, and flanking gabled single-bay wings. The ground floor of the symmetrical garden front projects slightly under a pantile roof, and the windows are sashes with mullions in segmental arches. In the upper floor are pilasters, and the attic contains three flat-headed dormers. In the centre of the north front is the main entrance, with a porch, and a doorway with a quoined moulded stone architrave and a cornice, and the ground floor windows have cogged hood moulds. The stables are also built of red brick, and they have pantile roofs. In the centre is a two-storey clock tower flanked by taller chimneys. This contains a segmental carriage arch with an oversailing gabled roof. Above it is a diamond-shaped clock face, a series of pigeon holes, a roof with coping and kneelers, and a fox weathervane. The tower is flanked by single-storey wings, connecting on the left to a single-bay cottage, with a three-light window, a two-light dormer and a pyramidal roof. On the right is a stable block stretching back for eight bays. Inside, the original stable boxes survive.

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St Peter's Church, Birkby

St Peter's Church is the parish church of Birkby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. St Peter's Church was first built in the 12th century. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1776, and in 1872 the arched windows were replaced by Gothic windows, and a porch and bellcote were added. Two vestries were added in 1888 by C. Hodgson Fowler. It was Grade II listed in 1970. The church is built of brick, with stone dressings, and a stone slate roof. It consists of a three-bay nave with south porch and a single-bay chancel. At the west end is a bellcote with two pointed-arched bell openings, and a round-headed arch above. The porch contains a doorway with a pointed arch and a chamfered surround, diagonal buttresses, and it has a coped gable with a cross. Inside, the oak benches date from the 17th century. A piece of an 11th-century cross shaft is set into the west wall, while a carved capital of about 1160 was found under the floor, having at some point served as a baptismal font.

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