Listed buildings in Brayton, North Yorkshire explained

Brayton is a civil parish in the former Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains five listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Brayton and the surrounding area. The listed buildings consist of a church and its vicarage, a milestone, and a bridge and tunnel on the Selby Canal.

Key

-GradeCriteria
IBuildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
IIBuildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
St Wilfrid's Church
53.7719°N -1.0847°W
The church has been altered and extended during the centuries, including a restoration in 1877–78 by J. L. Pearson. It is built in magnesian limestone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry, and a west steeple. The steeple has a tower with three stages, a string course, a frieze at impost level, a corbel table, and an embattled parapet. On the tower is an octagon with two-light bell openings, surmounted by a spire. The south doorway is Norman, and has four orders of arches with beakhead, medallion and chevron ornament and roll moulding, and three orders of decorated nook shafts.
Brayton Bridge
53.7655°N -1.0757°W
The bridge carries Brayton Lane over the Selby Canal. It is in stone and consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has a band, a solid parapet and capping, and curved splayed ends with round piers at the ends.
Brayton Tunnel
53.7608°N -1.082°W
1778The tunnel consists of a culvert carrying a stream under the Selby Canal, flanked by sumps to reduce the risk of flooding. It is built in limestone and gritstone, with some engineering brick, on timber foundations.
The Vicarage
53.7724°N -1.0853°W
The vicarage is in reddish-brown mottled brick, rendered and whitewashed on the front, with stone dressings, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is a trellis porch, and the windows are sashes.
Milestone
53.7689°N -1.0885°W
The milestone on the northwest side of Doncaster Road (A19 road) consists of a stone about high with a pointed head. It is inscribed with the distances to Doncaster, Askern, Selby and York.