Church Of St Botolph

SE 76 SW BUTTERCRAMBE MAIN STREET WITH BOSSALL (east side) Bossall 4/3 (1/1) Church of St Botolph

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Church. Late C12 nave, transepts and tower (with C15 upper stage) and late C13 chancel, with C19 restoration including rebuilding of west gable in 1859. Dressed limestone and sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Cruciform plan. 3-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay transepts, crossing tower, 3-bay chancel. String-course and corbel table to nave, transepts and tower. Round-headed windows to nave (except for round window to west gable). C19 south porch contains door of 4 orders of shafts with dogtooth and stylised flowers between, and waterleaf capitals, carrying deeply moulded round arch. North door as south, but of one order only. Transept windows: lancets except for round-headed windows to south transept west wall and late C13 2-light window to north transept east wall. Chancel: one flat-arched and two 2-light pointed windows to north. To south, blocked round-arched priests' door and two 2-light Perpendicular windows. Interior: crossing with triple responds, central one being keeled, carrying triple-chamfered arches. Plain moulded capitals. Font: lobed bowl, probably C14 with C17 wooden cover. Royal Arms 1710, painted on wood. Monuments: brass to Robert Constable, died 1457, and wall memorial to Robert Belt, died 1630, and his wife, died 1662, consisting of tablet flanked by Corinthian pilasters supporting broken segmental pediment with achievement, the whole resting on brackets with carved angel between. Pevsner, Yorkshire: The North Riding, 1966.

Listing NGR: SE7183460749