Church of St Cuthbert

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SE 47 SE 7/31

SESSAY CHURCH LANE (east side) Church of St Cuthbert

GV II*

Church. 1847-8. By William Butterfield for Viscount Downe. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof, shingled spire. Four-bay nave with south aisle, south porch and west tower; lower two-bay chancel with north vestry. In early C14 Gothic style. Quoins; quoined openings; chamfered plinth and sill string to all but south aisle; offset buttresses, diagonal to tower and chancel.

Tower: two offset stages; wide shallow vice on south with offsets to top and right and slit window; two-light west window with cinquefoil below quatrefoil window; square-headed two-light north window; two-light louvred belfry openings; broached spire with weather-cock.

Nave: steeply-gabled porch has cusped wooden-arched entry, cusped bargeboards, small two-light windows to returns and board inner door in pointed-arched surround of two chamfered orders; aisle, under shallower-pitched roof, has plain two-light window with ogee-arched lights on left of porch and similar four-light window on right, in west end a two-light and at east end a circular window, both with decorative tracery; north side has a three-light and a two-light window.

Chancel: single and two-light south windows; east window of three lights with traceried circle at top and head-stopped hoodmould; shouldered-arched vestry door and side-lights; raised east verge with coping and cross-finial.

Interior: double-chamfered tower arch; pointed-arched aisle arcade of two hollow-moulded orders with simple decorative motifs; moulded chancel arch; crown-post roof trusses with quadrant braces to nave; encaustic tile floor with coat of arms, simple aumbry and piscina, and painted panelled roof over altar, to chancel. Octagonal font with carved sides and tapering octagonal wooden cover with iron finial. Simple brass set in chancel floor to Walter Thomas Magnus, d 1550, Archdeacon of the North Riding.

Listing NGR: SE4642574729