Church Of Holy Cross

NZ 40 SE WHORLTON CHURCH LANE Swainby South side 9/167 Church of 23/6/66 Holy Cross GV II Parish Church, 1877 by T.H. Wyatt, replacing the earlier church of the same name (q.v.). Coursed pecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; plain tiled roofs with tiled ridges and stone gable copings; snecked stone spire. Nave with north aisle, chancel with north vestry, north-west tower. Early English style with plate tracery. Tower of 3 stages has extruded vice in west corner to nave North door; 2 lancets above, and clock. Paired louvred bell-openings in shafted 2-centred arch. Stepped angle buttresses, eaves corbel table and broach spire with lucarnes and vane. 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel on south. 2-bay north aisle and gabled vestry with small door. Interior: plastered with stone features. North arcade has 2 wide chamfered and moulded 2-centred arches on round pier and half-round responds. Arch-braced collar-beam roof. Tiled nave floor. Stone and marble pulpit and base of chancel screen. Wood upper screen, in very high arch, is World War I memorial. Arch has side shafts with carved capitals. Polished limestone raised chancel floor. Stained glass in East window and one south window by Kempe, 1879 and 1903. Also a window with Ss Cecilia and Ursula by A.K:Nicholson, 1923. Another with warlike saints commemorating the Marquis of Ailesbury and General Gordon of Khartoum, 1886.

Listing NGR: NZ4778702012