Church Of All Saints

BUBWITH CHURCH STREET SE 73 NW (west end)

3/20 Church of All Saints 16.12.60

GV I Church. Late C12 in origin with chancel of c1300, C13 arcade, mid C14 north aisle, C15 south aisle, tower and clerestory built with funds from will of Nicholas de Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells (1408-1424), possibly designed by Robert Cooper (fl 1442-59); east window of c1485. Limestone ashlar, Westmorland slate. roof. West tower, 4-bay aisled nave with clerestory, 3- bay chancel. 2-stage tower with diagonal buttresses. Tall 3-light west window. Traceried 2-light pointed belfry opening with hoodmould resting on string course to each face. Embattled parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave south side: pointed doorway in second bay, and 3-light square-headed Perpendicular windows. Diagonal buttresses to either end and stepped buttress between bays 3 and 4. 3-light pointed Perpendicular window to east end. Plain parapet with moulded coping. Clerestory: 3-light cinque-cusped square-headed windows and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Nave north side: pointed doorway, opposing that to south. Square-headed 3-light windows flanked by stepped buttresses, those to outer bays with Perpendicular tracery, those to inner bays with Decorated tracery. Square- headed 3-light reticulated window to east end. Clerestory as south side. Chancel south side: pointed priest's door with tall lancet to left and two 2-light pointed windows with quatrefoil tracery separated by stepped buttress to right. Chancel north side: 2-light pointed window with quatrefoil tracery, with stepped buttress to left. East end: 5-light Perpendicular window flanked by stepped buttresses. Interior: round-headed Norman chancel arch of 3 moulded orders, with scalloped moulding to outer order, set on responds with scalloped capitals. East wall of nave set back over arch with line of Norman gable end with 2 blocked rectangular windows to left and right clearly visible. Above chancel arch on east side is a small winged figure in relief in an elongated quatrefoil, probably c1200. North aisle contains Norman flat buttress and section of corbel table to east end. Arcade: 3 eastern bays of c1300 with round piers and filleted responds carrying double chamfered arches. Western bay carried on Perpendicular octagonal piers. Tall Perpendicular tower arch. C15 octagonal font inscribed "Fons de Bubvid". Bubwith Village Trust, Bubwith: an East Yorkshire Parish, 1979. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Rifi, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE7116436179