Danby Wiske Church

SE 39 NW 5/5 31.3.70

DANBY WISKE MOUNTSTROLL LANE (east side, off) Danby Wiske Church

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Church. C12 south wall and doorway, C14 chancel and north aisle, later C15 tower and C18 porch. Rubble and ashlar sandstone. Welsh and Westmorland slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch, clerestory and north aisle, chancel. Tower of ashlar with offset diagonal buttresses, stair tower with 2 slit windows, 2-light C15 belfry-window and embattled parapet. Nave: 3 bays. South doorway has Norman tympanum and on it 3 standing men in long robes. South porch: gabled with raised verges, shaped kneelers and stone coping. To right of porch a 2-light window with hoodmould and a single- light pointed-arch window. Clerestory is in ashlar with 2-light windows. Offset buttress at east end. Embattled parapet. Chancel: rubblestone with stone dressings. 2 bays. 2 windows of 2 lights with cusped Y-tracery under hoodmoulds flank trefoil-headed priest's door. Nave and chancel roofs have stone coping with gable cross to chancel. Interior: tower has a vault of diagonal and ridge ribs round a large circle. North arcade: 3 bays of round piers with octagonal abaci supporting double-chamfered pointed arches. Stalls have some re-set Jacobean panels. C14 effigy of lady, aumbry and piscina.

Listing NGR: SE3381098337