Description

SHERBURN IN ELMET CHURCH HILL
SE 43 SE
(west side)
6/31 Church of All Saints
3.2.67
GV I

Church. C12 nave and north aisle, C13 chancel with C14 south aisle and
extension to north aisle, C15 south aisle chapel, and later additions and
alterations including C16 clerestory, north aisle windows and heightening of
tower. East end restored in 1857 by Anthony Salvin and C19 vestry.
Magnesian limestone ashlar. 2-stage west tower, 4-bay aisled-nave (with
fifth bay embracing tower), south porch, south chapel, 2-bay chancel with
north vestry. Tower has massive diagonal off-set buttresses, twin-light
pointed bell openings to each side have Perpendicular tracery to heads,
battlements with crocketed pinnacles. South porch has re-used opening with
zigzag moulding to pointed head on shafts with waterleaf capitals. Round-
arched south door under hood-mould with keeled roll and plank door. South
chapel has diagonal buttress and straight-headed windows with 3 cinquefoil
lights. South aisle has 3-light pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery.
North aisle has single slit window, otherwise 3-light, straight-headed
Perpendicular windows, and similar windows to embattled clerestory. Chancel
has pointed plank priest's door and 3 lancets. Vestry to north side. East
end has 3 lancets with vesica to gable. Interior: triple-chamfered round
tower arch, with a round-arched shafted window above with waterleaf
capitals. Tower vault with chamfered ribs. Nave arcade of round arches on
cylindrical piers, some with scallop capitals. Niches for tombs to both
aisles. Ogee window between south aisle and chancel. Double chamfered
chancel arch. Against the east and south walls of the south aisle are the 2
faces of the C15 Janus cross. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979,
pp 481-2.

Listing NGR: SE4880633525

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17526270

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  For the Record