Church Of St Martin

SE 66 NE BULMER MAIN STREET (south side)

3/12 Church of St. Martin 25.1.54 GV I

Church. C11 nave with inserted C12, C15 and C18 features, C15 tower with datestone on parapet of 1637, chancel rebuilt during 1893 restoration by Demaine and Brierley. Sandstone and limestone rubble with some herringbone work to nave, and ashlar dressings. Westmorland slate roof to nave, corrugated iron roof to chancel. West tower, nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. 2-light square-headed window flanked by diagonal buttresses to west front of 3-stage tower. Illegible memorial slab with Greek key border to south face. String course to second stage carries small lancet window to west. Double lancet belfry openings to each face. Later embattled parapet with pinnacles and datestone. Nave: irregular fenestration, consisting to south of 2 deeply-splayed round-headed C11 windows flanking C18/C19 porch, two 2-light and one 3-light C15 square-headed windows and 3 C18 square- headed windows, that to right flanked by 2 headstops and incorporating mass dial in left jamb. Porch contains C12 round-headed door of 2 orders on moulded capitals, and has large memorial slab with Greek key border on external east wall commemorating Christopher Thompson, blacksmith at Castle Howard, died 1773. To north, nave has blocked C12 narrow round-headed doorway of one plain order with hoodmould, beneath 2-light C15 square-headed window, with deeply-splayed round-headed window to left. To extreme left the blocking of arcade arches to a demolished 2-bay north chapel contains two 2-light C18 windows. Chancel: basket-arched priests' door flanked by 2-light C19 square-headed windows. 3-light C19 east window.. Interior contains the head of a Saxon wheel-cross over blocked north doorway. To east end of nave north wall is an effigy of Sir John de Bulmer, died c1270-1280, with shield on left shoulder bearing lion rampant over grave slab with complex relief floriate cross and sword. Flush panel octagonal C18 pulpit. Pevsner "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966. Taylor and Taylor 'Anglo-Saxon Architecture' 1965.

Listing NGR: SE6993867631