Church Of All Saints

SE 9380 BROMPTON-BY-SAWDON CHURCH LANE (north side)

13/9 Church of All Saints

18.1.67

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Church. C14 west tower and nave; C15 arcade, south aisle and chancel; south porch of 1895 in memory of Sir George Cayley. Dressed sandstone with slate roof. West tower; 3-bay aisled nave; south porch; chancel and north chapel. The 3-stage tower has diagonal off-set buttresses and a north-east vice. Single light to lowest stage of west face, and single square-headed lights to the second stage. Bell-openings are paired ogee-arched lights beneath pointed stopped hood-moulds. Octagonal broach spire with lucarnes and weather-vane. Embattled gabled porch has diagonal buttresses and 2-centred arched opening beneath pointed hood-mould. Fine C14 studded and traceried south door. Nave: 3-light Perpendicular windows. Buttressed north wall incorporates portions of C13 masonry and a pointed doorway with imposts, one with foliate moulding. 3 square-headed 2-light windows. Chancel: 3-light Perpendicular windows to south; 2-light windows with renewed tracery to north. Rebuilt east window of 3 lights. To the north of the window a C13 standing figure and a C14 seated figure have been reset in the masonry. The north and south aisles and north chapel have embattled parapets; the parapet to the nave south side and the chancel is plain. Coped east gable and gable cross. Interior:.on the ground stage of the tower, springers for an uncompleted vault survive. Narrow, pointed tower arch. Nave and chancel arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with plain capitals. Pointed chancel arch on half-octagonal responds. At the east end of the south aisle two C12 scalloped capitals have been set into the wall. Well-preserved painted organ case and gallery of 1893 by Temple Moore. C13 circular font with traces of cable moulding on a cylindrical pedestal. Monuments. North aisle: a tablet dated 1580 to James Westrop; a wall brass to Elizabeth Cayley, d1688. South aisle: wall monument to various members of the Sawdon family who died between 1782 and 1820, by C Fisher of York; wall tablet to Ann Harland, d1844, by Matthew Noble. Chancel south wall: elaborate wall monument in high relief with broken pedimented surround and Latin inscription to Sir William Cayley, d1681; bust to Elizabeth Sarah Cayley, d1805, by Chambers of Scarborough. Stained glass: a window in the south wall of the chancel, of 1885, which is a precise rendering of Raphael's "Sermon of St Paul at Athens" from the Sistine Cartoons. William Wordsworth was married in this church to Mary Hutchinson, on 4 October 1802. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; p89.

Listing NGR: SE9429282129