Church Of All Saints

NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338

SE 36 NE KIRBY HILL CHURCH LANE (north side)

3/24 Church of All Saints

20.6.66 - I

Church. Probably C10 origins reusing earlier materials, c1170 and C13 with C15 alterations and restoration 1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Coursed gritstone, squared and coursed rubble. Stone slate roof to nave and probably chancel (not visible), grey slate roof to spire, red tiles to north aisle and chapel. West tower, 2-bay nave with south porch, taller north aisle and chapel, lower 2-bay chancel. Tower: 3 stages, upper part rebuilt 1870. A stone with Roman inscription used as a quoin in lower south-west corner; 2-light plate-tracery west window; paired lancets to belfry stage, corbel table with gargoyle on west side; coped parapet; squat pyramidal spire with weather cock. Nave: south window of 3 trefoil-headed lights, the head on the right-hand light restored. South porch: 1870. Pointed archway and 2 side lights; walling includes 6 worked stones, one of them Saxon; inner chamfered round-arched doorway, probably C12, within an earlier opening of which the eastern impost and 4 lowest voussoirs of an outer order are visible externally, partially renewed board door with possibly C12 C-shaped hinges with central strap and trident finials. Chancel: blocked 4- centred arched doorway, 2-light trefoil-headed window to right; rectangular chamfered openings to left and right. Chancel east window: C15, of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights under a 3-centred arch. North aisle and chapel: 1870 with 2-and 3-light windows in Decorated style. Interior: nave: narrow round tower arch with chamfered imposts. Substantial remains of C10 doorway and carved stones in south wall. North wall similar in character; north arcade of 2 single-stepped round arches with central round pier and engaged semi-octagonal shafts, scalloped capitals and traces of painted decoration on voussoirs. Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch of 1870 copying similar C13 original arch to north aisle from chancel. A squint between the north chapel and the chancel. Cylindrical font, probably Cll reworked C14, with C18 polygonal cover. Fragments of Anglian and Danish carved stones in the tower. Late C15 bench ends with poppy-heads, and 1870 replacements, the bequest of Lady Jean Warde of Givendale, 1473. N Pevsner, Buildings of England: Yorkshire North Riding, 1966, p210. H Stapleton, The Church of All Saints, Kirby on the Moor, otherwise Kirby Hill, 1923. H M Taylor and Joan Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 1965, Vol I, p354-65.

Listing NGR: SE3932068597