Description

NORTH YORKSHIRE
HARROGATE
5338

SE 55 NW MOOR MONKTON CHURCH LANE
(east side)
2/6 Church of All Saints
15.3.66

II*

Church. C12 with tower and major restoration of 1879 by J H Fowler of
Louth. Sandstone and gritstone ashlar, plain tile roof. West tower, 4-bay
nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. 3-stage tower with full-height
clasping buttresses and string course to each stage. West front: round-
headed window with nook-shafts. Narrow round-headed window to second stage.
2 round-headed belfry openings with continuous hoodmoulds divided by flat
buttresses to each face of third stage. Plain parapet supported by corbels
with animal head gargoyles to angles. Nave south front: inserted single-
light pointed window to first bay and rebuilt porch with round-arched
doorway to second bay. Original round-headed slit window to third bay and
inserted paired pointed windows to fourth bay. Nave north front: 2 restored
pointed windows. Chancel: round-arched priest's door and pointed window to
south; pointed window and small round-arched window to north. East front:
C19 triple round-arched window with zigzag enrichment. Interior: porch
contains south door of 2 orders, the outer roll-moulded order held on
shafts, that to left with waterleaf capital. Hoodmould with original
beast's head label stop to right. The east wall of the porch has built into
it a slab of approximately 0.5 metres length with sunk quatrefoils at head
and base within which appears the head and feet of a figure of a priest. To
the west wall is a small draped figure with its head missing. The west
tower contains an C18 memorial consisting of a figure recumbent on a bier
framed by drapes, surmounted by putti seated on deathheads supporting a
coat of arms. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, second edition, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE5109656032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17536549

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