Church Of The Holy Cross

SE 67 NW 6/35 4.1.55

GILLING EAST CHURCH LANE (south side) Church of the Holy Cross

GV I

Church. Arcade of c1200, early C14 chancel, C14 south arcade, late C15 tower, C19 organ chamber and restoration. Sandstone rubble and ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with north porch, 3- bay chancel with organ chamber to north. 2-stage -tower with stepped diagonal buttresses. West window of 4 stepped round-headed transomed lights beneath pointed hoodmould. Belfry openings of 3 round-headed lights under elliptical arch to each face. Embattled parapet with pinnacles. North aisle: C19 windows in Geometrical and Decorated style. North porch: pointed doorway beneath divided overlight flanked by pilasters carrying concave- moulded capitals and banded pediment. South aisle: pointed doorway of 2 chamfered orders in 2nd bay. Flat-headed 2-light cusped ogee windows, that to west being C19. Chancel: to north and organ chamber with 2-light east window in Decorated style. To south: basket-arched priest's door beneath Tudor-arched window of 4 stepped round-headed lights. 3-light reticulated window to left, and 2-light Decorated window to right. East end: C19 3- light window with reticulated tracery. Interior: arcades on slender I cylindrical piers with square abaci and pointed arches of 2 orders, those to north chamfered, those to south plain. South aisle contains C14 ogee-arched tomb recess with elaborate crockets and sub-cusping. Also in south aisle east end stone effigies to Sir Nicholas Fairfax, died 1572, and his 2 wives. At west end, tomb to Sir Thomas Fairfax, died 1828, and his wife: white marble figure of Piety reclining over 2 urns. 2 deeply incised floriate cross grave slabs near this tomb. Anon "The Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East" n.d. (Church Guide). Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding". 1966.

Listing NGR: SE6160076902