Church Of All Saints

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