CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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SE 84 NW POCKLINGTON PAVEMENT (east side)

16/29 Church of All Saints

26.1.67 I

Church. C12 or earlier nave, C13 transepts, C15 west tower and chancel, south porch rebuilt C19 using old materials. Coursed shelly limestone rubble to nave and transepts, ashlar elsewhere. Lead roofs. West tower, 4-bay aisled nave with clerestory, south porch, north and south transepts, east aisle to north transept, 4-bay chancel with north chapel. 4-stage west tower with triple-chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, and moulded string-courses. 2-light window with Perpendicular tracery under segmental head with stepped hood-mould to third stage. 3-light pointed belfry opening, with Perpendicular tracery with transom, under stepped hoodmould. Crenellated parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Double-leaf boarded west door in 4-centred opening with continuous mouldings and hoodmould; tall pointed 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould with grotesques to stops and apex. South aisle has one square-headed and 2 pointed 2-light windows, all with Perpendicular tracery. Flat-headed 2-light clerestory windows with Perpendicular tracery to north and to south. Pointed south door of 3 orders, the outer 2 having nook-shafts, round abaci, and filleted roll mouldings. Hoodmould with foliage stops. South transept has rebuilt diagonal buttresses and C19 4-light south window with Perpendicular tracery. 2-light and 3-light pointed windows to east wall, the former with Y-tracery, the latter with brattished transom. Low parapet, low-pitch roof. North transept has pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery throughout except C13 lancet to west wall. Chancel: double- chamfered plinth, buttress with offsets, 3 pointed 2-light windows with transoms and Perpendicular tracery under hood-moulds. Pointed double- chamfered priests' door with similar hoodmould. Interior: lofty pointed tower arch with broad capital-band carved with grotesque heads and foliage. Similar, lower, arches to embracing aisles. Late C12 north arcade with cylindrical piers, and capitals carved with wide variery of human, animal, and foliage subjects, and pointed double-chamfered arches under continuous hoodmould with grotesque stops. Early C13 south arcade of cylindrical piers, capitals, and abaci supporting double-chamfered arches, under continuous hoodmould with beak-head stops. Similar arcade to chancel north chapel and also (with some nailhead) to east side of north transept. North nave aisle has one late mediaeval truss, with heavily cambered arch-braced tiebeam, at west end. Late C12 font reset in C19 on central column with four black shelly marble columnettes. In chancel north chapel: black marble triptych wall memorial, with incised recumbent figure and mourning family, to Thomas Dolman, died 1589. Alabaster wall memorial with lengthy inscription to Robert Sothebie, died 1594, in decorated surround flanked by columns, to north transept north wall. C14 churchyard cross under west tower. Early C16 carved wooden alterpiece to chancel south wall.

Listing NGR: SE8023048974

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166997

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LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.