Church Of All Saints

HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 5264

SE 91 NE SAXBY ALL SAINTS CHURCH LANE (east side)

7/58 Church of All Saints

6.11.67

GV II

Church. Rebuilt 1845-9 by George Gilbert Scott, with some re-used medieval details; tower rebuilt in 1873 by Neville. Vestry added in 1880. Limestone ashlar with Westmoreland slate roof. Late C13 Gothic style. 5-bay nave with north aisle, south porch and tower adjoining south side; 3-bay chancel with vestry adjoining north side. Nave: buttresses, chamfered plinth; 2- light trefoiled windows with pierced quatrefoils above, pair of west lancets with pierced quatrefoil above. North aisle: 2 lancets and 2 similar 2-light trefoiled windows with quatrefoils, re-set C13 trefoiled lancets to east and west; corbel table with two carved head spouts, coped parapet. Gabled timber porch on ashlar plinth. 4-stage tower with chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, chamfered string courses; pointed chamfered door to first stage, lancets to second stage, 2-light Y-traceried windows to third stage, similar louvred belfry openings to top stage, with clockface of 1893 to east. Cornice, angle gargoyles, embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles; short spire with wrought-iron finial. Chancel: plinth, buttresses, cill band; lancets with hoodmoulds, single pointed 3-light traceried east window. Interior. Arcade of cylindrical piers, octagonal east respond, carved head corbel west respond; double-chamfered round arches. West lancets have nook shafts, moulded arches and hoodmoulds with carved head stops. Double-chamfered pointed arch to organ chamber/tower on carved head corbels. Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch on octagonal responds. Continuous hoodmould to chancel windows; east window with nook shafts and hoodmould with headstops, south east window has a wooden seat below flanked by trefoiled niches cut into the window reveals. Wooden credence shelf on north wall supported on a fine medieval carved head corbel. Monuments in chancel include: finely-inscribed marble wall tablet to Rev John Consett of 1783; marble tablet of 1831 to John Barton and wife Margaret with arms in relief by Skelton of York; large ashlar tablet to John Watson Barton, probably of late 1840s, with richly-carved Gothic-style ornament by R Brown of London. Original fittings include carved ashlar pulpit, carved wooden altar rails and pew ends, and stained glass. North aisle east window painted by C E Kempe, 1876. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 349.

Listing NGR: SE9921916694