Description

ROOS
HUMBERSIDE
HOLDERNESS
5266
TA 22 NE
11/53 Church of All Saints
16.12.66
I
Church. C13 or earlier nave, early C14 chancel and 2-storey north vestry.
West tower of 1447, west porch of 1842. Restored 1842 by Cottingham, and
again in 1913 by Temple Moore. Coursed cobbles with freestone dressings,
Mediaeval brick, slate roofs. Single-storey west porch, 3-stage west tower,
3-bay nave with embracing aisles and clerestory, 3-bay chancel with 2-storey
north vestry, south chapel. West porch: buttresses with offsets. Pointed
openings to north, south and west sides. Coped parapet with cross finial to
gable. West tower: moulded plinth and string-courses, buttresses with
offsets. Pointed west window with continuous hollow chamfered and
Perpendicular tracery. 2-light pointed belfry openings with cusped
Y-tracery. Crenellated parapet, formerly with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave:
moulded plinth, buttresses with offsets. 4 square-headed windows of
3 trefoil-headed lights. Clerestory: 3 pointed windows of 3 trefoil-headed
lights. Crenellated parapet. Chancel: moulded plinth, buttresses with
offsets. South chapel and south wall of chancel have pointed 3-light
windows with Perpendicular tracery. Pointed 5-light east window with
Perpendicular tracery. North wall west window is pointed, of 3 lights with
reticulated tracery. North vestry: pointed west door with continuous wave-
mouldings; ogee-headed lights to first-floor west and north walls; 3-light
square-headed window with reticulated tracery to east wall first and second
floors. Coped parapet. The north vestry has a circular stair turret which
rises above parapet level. Interior: pointed double-chamfered tower arch
under hood-mould with monarch stops. North and south arcades: early - mid
C13. Circular piers on waterholding bases, pointed double-chamfered arches
under hood-moulds with face-stops. Attached shafts to responds. Chancel:
pointed door with continuous chamfer to north vestry: above it and slightly
to the east is a pointed window to priests chamber. C14 piscina: ogee-
headed cusped arch under blank tracery. Pulpit of 1615: raised and moulded
base with panelled side and date-panels. Reset mediaeval coloured glass in
clerestory south side east window including an angel with a scroll and the
fragment of an inscription commemorating the members of a guild. Chancel
screen and rood figures by Temple Moore. Wall tablet to Reverend Sir Mark
Sykes and his wife, of Sledmere, died 1783, with a double portrait
medallion.

Listing NGR: TA2906829613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534343

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