Church Of All Saints

NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338

SE 55 NW MOOR MONKTON CHURCH LANE (east side) 2/6 Church of All Saints 15.3.66

II*

Church. C12 with tower and major restoration of 1879 by J H Fowler of Louth. Sandstone and gritstone ashlar, plain tile roof. West tower, 4-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. 3-stage tower with full-height clasping buttresses and string course to each stage. West front: round- headed window with nook-shafts. Narrow round-headed window to second stage. 2 round-headed belfry openings with continuous hoodmoulds divided by flat buttresses to each face of third stage. Plain parapet supported by corbels with animal head gargoyles to angles. Nave south front: inserted single- light pointed window to first bay and rebuilt porch with round-arched doorway to second bay. Original round-headed slit window to third bay and inserted paired pointed windows to fourth bay. Nave north front: 2 restored pointed windows. Chancel: round-arched priest's door and pointed window to south; pointed window and small round-arched window to north. East front: C19 triple round-arched window with zigzag enrichment. Interior: porch contains south door of 2 orders, the outer roll-moulded order held on shafts, that to left with waterleaf capital. Hoodmould with original beast's head label stop to right. The east wall of the porch has built into it a slab of approximately 0.5 metres length with sunk quatrefoils at head and base within which appears the head and feet of a figure of a priest. To the west wall is a small draped figure with its head missing. The west tower contains an C18 memorial consisting of a figure recumbent on a bier framed by drapes, surmounted by putti seated on deathheads supporting a coat of arms. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, second edition, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE5109656032