Church of All Saints

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YAFFORTH YAFFORTH ROAD (north side, off) Church of All Saints

31.3.70

GV II

Parish church, virtually rebuilt in 1870 by JP Pritchett, jr (1830 to 1911) incorporating a Norman window on the west side of the tower. Ashlar and coursed rubble stone, graduated slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch, chancel. Early English style.

Tower: Three storeys with angle buttresses, a blank circular reveal, pointed-arch belfry windows of two cusped lights and a quatrefoil under hoodmoulds. String, parapet.

Nave: three bays defined by buttresses. Porch in first bay has pointed-arch doorway with responds, hoodmould and wrought-iron gates. South door incorporates earlier Norman work thought to be of around 1200. To right of porch: chamfered band. Two pointed-arch windows of 2-cusped lights and a quatrefoil under hoodmoulds.

Chancel: Two bays. Buttresses and band as nave. Shouldered-arch single-light window and priests door. Flat-arched window of three cusped lights with hoodmould. Pointed-arch plate-traceried east window. Shaped kneelers, stone coping; gable cross to chancel.

Interior: octagonal font dated 1663 with initials and geometrical patterns (similar to examples at Pickhill, Burneston and Crayke).

Listing NGR: SE3443494489