Church Of St Michael And All Angels

COWESBY MAIN STREET SE 4689 (NORTH SIDE, OFF) 9/15 CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS - II Church. 1846. By A Salvin for the widow and children of George Lloyd of Cowesby Hall, and in his memory. Rock-faced stone, graduated stone slate roof. 3-Bay nave with south porch separated by 2-stage tower from 1-bay chancel. In Norman style. chamfered plinth, moulded cill band, eaves band, ashlar coping and cross finials to gables, quoined round-arched windows, doorways with moulded round arches on columns with scalloped cushion capitals. Nave: west window has columns with scalloped cushion capitals; inside gabled porch is board inner door with decorative iron hinges. Tower: louvred 2-light belfry openings to north and south, 2 single lights to west and east; corbelled pyramidal roof with lucarnes and weather vane. Chancel: east end has paired windows and oculus above with moulded surround; vestry under separate gabled roof has octagonal stack and outshut. Interior: attached columns with scalloped cushion capitals; head-corbels support principal rafter roof trusses with curved braces to collars and chamfered butt purlins. C17 altar rail has balusters of interlaced spirals, solid gate posts and broad, chamfered, hand rail. Round-arched commandment tablets flanking east window; board door to vestry. The building is on the site of a Saxon and a C13 church. Salvin had earlier (1832) designed Cowesby Hall for George Lloyd (replaced 1949). W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray: a historical and topographical account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood (1859), pp. 283,286. Church guide. N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, The North Riding.

Listing NGR: SE4645089952