Description

SE 6886-6986 KIRKBYMOORSIDE CHURCH STREET
(north side)

6/31 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
14/7/55
CV I

Church. C13 nave and arcades; C14 and C15 aisles and porch; tower partly
rebuilt in C18; chancel rebuilt, and additions and restoration 1874 by
Sir G G Scott. Dressed limestone and sandstone on rubble plinth; stone flag
roof. 3-bay aisled nave with clerestory; south porch with Priest's Room
above; chancel with C19 Lady Chapel to north and vestry to south. The
embattled south porch with diagonal buttresses is tunnel-vaulted, and
contains round-headed door in a segmental arch. Embattled tower of
3 stages, defined by string courses, has raised quoins, diagonal buttresses
and crocketed pinnacles. There are glazed oculi in the first and third
stages, and louvred bell openings with Y-tracery in the second stage, all
raised, milled surrounds. The nave and aisles are embattled and contain
flat- and round-headed 2-light cusped windows. Chancel east window has
intersecting tracery and is flanked by tile Lady Chapel and Vestry with C19
Curvilinear tracery, tinder pointed drip-moulds on corbels carved with masks.
Interior: nave arcade of octagonal and cylindrical piers with octagonal
abaci and arches of one step and one slight chamfer. Nave and aisle roofs
early C15, slightly cambered, with moulded ridge, principals and purlins
with carved bosses including the Neville arms. C14 round-headed window has
been retained and duplicated in the chancel south wall, over a C14 sedilia.
In tile Lady Chapel, the reredos is Jacobean. Pulpit and screen between
Chapel and chancel by Scott. Chancel screen 1919, by Temple Moore. In the
south wall of the chancel is a C17 brass memorial, to Lady Brooke who died
in 1600.

Listing NGR: SE6974686613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526063

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