Church Of All Saints

PICKHILL WITH ROXBY

SE 38 SW 4/35 Church of All Saints GV II * 20.6.66

Church. C12, C13, C14, C15 and late C19 restoration by G E Street. Coursed squared stone and ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel with north chapel and vestry. 3-stage tower, late C15, with offset diagonal buttresses and wide angle buttress to east of south front which forms stair tower with 3 slit openings; single- light chamfered opening and clockface to second stage; 2-light flat-headed cusped belfry window; band; embattled parapet with pinnacles at each corner. West window, C19,3-light pointed-arched with hoodmould. Nave: C13, 3 bays. Gabled wooden late C19 south porch masks inner board door which has a Norman doorway with 2 orders of shafts carrying scalloped capitals and zigzags in the arch. To right of porch two C19 windows: 3-light, plate-traceried pointed-arched with hoodmoulds. Stone coping and gable cross. North aisle has C19 one-light windows apart from the one to west which is C13 of 2- lights with plate tracery. Chancel: C13, two bays with plinth and offset diagonal buttresses to east end. A plain board priests' doorway to left- hand side; to right two 2-light pointed-arched cusped windows. Stone coping and gable cross. East window of c1300: 3-light, pointed-arched with intersecting tracery. North chapel and vestry: C19; 2-light east window as nave, windows to north similar. Interior: north arcade: early C13, 3 bays, having quatrefoil piers with octagonal abaci and double-chamfered arches. Chancel arch: Norman with nook-shafts, scalloped capitals, cross along the imposts and zigzag work in the arch. Effigy of a knight in chancel late C13, probably Sir Andrew Nevill of Pickhill. Font: 1662, octagonal with initials and simple geometric patterns. Architectural fragments under the tower: a C10 Anglo-Danish fragment with a dragon, Jellingein style. 1 small fragment with a human figure and part of a hogback tombstone with bear. Part of the cornice beam with hare and hounds and human heads.

Listing NGR: SE3472083754