Date: -
Address: York, York, YO1 9QD
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Price:
SPAB member £10
Non member £15
Includes a £5 donation to St Denys Church
Event details
Wednesday 18 March, 1pm
Join the SPAB Yorkshire group for a tour of St Denys Church, in York, led by architect Andrew Boyce and Church Warden Dr Charles Kightly. Andrew is an Architect with 40 years + experience and currently Practice Director in the York office of Donald Insall Associates (DIA), as an Historic Buildings Architect specialising in all aspects of conservation and historic building repairs, renovations, refurbishment and development.
We will also be accompanied by the church warden Dr Charles Kightly.
The small grade 1 listed church of St Denys has a long and complex history: much reduced from its original size, it dates in its present form from the 14th, 15th and 19th centuries, with a re-sited Norman doorway of c.1160. It has one of the finest sets of mediaeval glass in York, filling 7 of the 11 windows: there is a little very early glass [c.1200], but most of the windows date from the mid-14th to mid-15th centuries, and most are York-made glass. Substantial fragments of previously unknown 14th/15th century glass came to light during restorations in 2017-18. There is also Powell and Co impressed glass of c.1847.
The church had strong links with the Percy family, earls of Northumberland, who lived nearby and have left their mark on it, including a late 15th century heraldic ceiling.
You will need
Please wear warm, comfortable layers and sturdy and closed-toed shoes.
How to get there
St Denys Rd, York YO1 9QD
No parking - Peel Street Car Park is seven minutes walk.
Accessibility
Please be aware there is a short flight of steep steps to the church, with partial handrails: unfortunately no access for motorised wheelchairs.
Anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you? Please email membership@spab.org.uk.
Photos and filming: We may take photos or videos at this event to be used in future promotion, including in print and online. Participants may take photos and short videos for personal use, with permission of the course leader and all other participants in frame. If you want to post on social media, please message SPAB's Comms Team (press@spab.org.uk or @spab1877) for permission. If your material is good, we might ask to share it with our followers.
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Photo credit: St Denys Church © Charles Kightly