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In the entry for: 14/15 DRIFFIELD MIDDLE STREET NORTH 1/1 (West side) Church of All Saints

The previous listing date shall be added to read:- 27/11/63

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TA 02 57 DRIFFIELD MIDDLE STREET NORTH (west side)

14/15 (1/1) Church of All Saints

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Church. Pre-conquest origins, C12 nave and clerestory, early C13 aisles and chancel. C15 west tower, north aisle rebuilt and north chancel chapel added 1880 by G G Scott. West tower, 4-bay aisled nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with north chapel. Ashlar, lead and slate roofs. West tower of 3 stages, approximately 34 metres high. Moulded plinth, string-courses to first and belfry stages. Angle-buttresses with ogee-headed canopied niches, panels with blank cusped tracery, and crocketed gablets at upper levels. First floor, south elevation: pointed window with Y-tracery, under hood- mould with carved stops. Belfry openings of 3 transomed lights with Perpendicular tracery under hood-moulds with stops and crocketed ogee gablets. Battlemented parapet with traceried panels and 8 crocketed pinnacles. West elevation: west door with continuous shallow roll moulding under crocketed ogee label with foliated finial flanked by heraldic shields. Pointed 4-light west window under crocketed ogee hood-mould with foliated finial flanked by small heraldic shields. Niche with moulded base and crocketed canopy to first floor, under carved panel with angels carrying heraldic shield. Nave: chamfered plinth, butresses with 2 offsets and grotesques, two 4-light square-headed windows with Curvilinear tracery in double-chamfered surrounds. South aisle west window 4-light with Curvilinear tracery under hood-mould with stops of monarchs heads, under raised coped gable. Early C13 south door of 3 orders, with colonnettes and keel mouldings, under hood-mould with dog-tooth and stops: to right, a Paschal lamb, to left, a beast head. Nave clerestory has C12 round-headed windows throughout. Plain corbel table. Pointed 2-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hood-mould to raised coped gable with cross finial. Chancel: low chamfered plinth, shallow buttresses, with crocketed pinnacles, sill band. Round-headed priest's door of 2 orders with C19 attached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and keel-mouldings, and outer order of palmette ornament. 2 square-headed 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under labels with stops of human and beast heads. Parapet with moulded coping. 5-light east window with Perpendicular tracery under segmental arch and label with beast-stops. Raised gable with moulded coping and cross finial. Interior: north and south arcades of c1200 with water-holding bases, round piers and abaci, and round-headed double- chamfered arches. Roll-moulded string to north and south walls beneath clerestory sills. Font of c1180: goblet-shaped with 4 colonnettes with waterleaf capitals. C14 chancel arch with pointed double-chamfered head dying into responds; C14 piscina with cusped ogee head to chancel south wall. Interesting collection of C12 architectural fragments in chancel north chapel.

Listing NGR: TA0220757977

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