Parish Room Of St Crux And Wall Attached To North West Corner

The Parish Room of St Crux, built in 1888, incorporates some remains of the earlier parish church of St Crux, which was demolished in 1887. The building is constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar and rubble, featuring a tile roof with an ashlar stack, stone copings, and trefoil gable finials. It has a rectangular plan.

On the exterior, the west doors are re-used and feature panel-traceried designs within a 4-centred moulded arch, flanked by single cinquefoiled windows, all of which have coved hoodmoulds. The doorway includes head stops, and the window stops are decorated with foliate designs. Above the door, there is a square-headed window with paired cinquefoiled lights and a flat hood. The south side has four similar windows. The east window, which has been reset, features cinquefoiled lights with panel tracery in a 4-centred casement moulded surround. The north wall includes masonry from the former church, highlighted by a broad chamfered plinth. This wall extends about 4 metres from the north-west corner to the rear of Nos 22 and 23 The Shambles, forming the south side of a passage leading from The Shambles to Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate. There is a blocked 4-centred doorway at the west end next to a small tomb recess beneath a low 4-centred arch.

Inside, an inner lobby is created by a panelled screen topped with a reset pedimented overdoor that features a pulvinated frieze and a central date of 1671. The tympanum displays a cartouche of arms draped with swags. The Parish Room houses notable monuments salvaged from the former church, including memorials to Sarah Rhodes (died 1813), Sir Tancred Robinson (died 1754), Thomas Court (died 1803), Sir Robert Watter and his wife (dated 1610), Thomas Clifton (died 1754), Robert Belwood (died 1694), Thomas Bowes (died 1777, possibly by Fisher), Henry Waite (died 1780, by Fisher), and Richard Hudson (died 1802, by Chambers of Scarborough). There are also two hatchments for the Herbert family. The roof trusses are supported by five re-used carved corbel-heads.