Church Of All Saints

SE 6886-6986 6/31 14/7/55

KIRKBYMOORSIDE CHURCH STREET (north side) CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Church. C13 nave and arcades; C14 and C15 aisles and porch; tower partly rebuilt in C18; chancel rebuilt, and additions and restoration 1874 by Sir G G Scott. Dressed limestone and sandstone on rubble plinth; stone flag roof. 3-bay aisled nave with clerestory; south porch with Priest's Room above; chancel with C19 Lady Chapel to north and vestry to south. The embattled south porch with diagonal buttresses is tunnel-vaulted, and contains round-headed door in a segmental arch. Embattled tower of 3 stages, defined by string courses, has raised quoins, diagonal buttresses and crocketed pinnacles. There are glazed oculi in the first and third stages, and louvred bell openings with Y-tracery in the second stage, all raised, milled surrounds. The nave and aisles are embattled and contain flat- and round-headed 2-light cusped windows. Chancel east window has intersecting tracery and is flanked by tile Lady Chapel and Vestry with C19 Curvilinear tracery, tinder pointed drip-moulds on corbels carved with masks. Interior: nave arcade of octagonal and cylindrical piers with octagonal abaci and arches of one step and one slight chamfer. Nave and aisle roofs early C15, slightly cambered, with moulded ridge, principals and purlins with carved bosses including the Neville arms. C14 round-headed window has been retained and duplicated in the chancel south wall, over a C14 sedilia. In tile Lady Chapel, the reredos is Jacobean. Pulpit and screen between Chapel and chancel by Scott. Chancel screen 1919, by Temple Moore. In the south wall of the chancel is a C17 brass memorial, to Lady Brooke who died in 1600.

Listing NGR: SE6974086613