Description

TA 16 NW BOYNTON MAIN STREET (east side) 10/31 Church of St Andrew 30.6.66 - I

Church, West tower C15, remainder 1768-70, possibly by John Carr. Ashlar tower, otherwise brick with stone dressings, tiled roof. 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, west tower. Nave has stone plinth and quoins, pointed windows with intersecting glazing bars in stone surrounds. Dentilled brick eaves cornice, coped gable. Lower 2-bay chancel has pointed windows with intersecting lead glazing bars in stone surrounds. C20 priest's door with pointed fanlight glazed with intersecting bars all in a plain stone surround. Dentilled brick eaves cornice, hipped roof. East window has Geometrical tracery, probably re-used. West tower has 3 stages with moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, and string courses. West window of 2 lights with perpendicular tracery, altered to accommodate double west door with Gothick panelling. South wall has large sculpted figure of St Andrew in canopied niche. 2-light belfry opening with Perpendicular tracery under hood-mould, battlemented parapet with C18 pinnacles. Interior has double chancel screen of 4 tapering quatrefoil columns and responds, with Gothick capitals, supporting entablature with triglyph frieze with linked circles to metopes. Nave has dado with raised and fielded panels, repeated on C19 pew ends. Family pew under tower arch: dog-leg stair with cut string, turned balusters, and ramped handrail, to balcony with turned balusters, cornice, handrail, and door with raised and fielded panels and original fastener. Balcony supported on 2 stone quatrefoil columns and 2 timber quatrefoil pilasters, all with Gothick capitals. Moulded cornice and coved ceiling to nave, moulded cornice to chancel. Moulded plaster panels to soffit of tower arch; dado, moulded cornice, and domical vault with Gothick ribbing to chamber behind family pew. Late C12 tub font with intersecting round-headed arcading, reset on brick. Family monuments in chancel: to left of east window, to William Strickland, 1663. Moulded plinth on corbels, enriched with acanthus, supporting raised bases of Corinthian colonnettes. Broken pediment with putti and hatchment. Plaster decoration of swags and ribands, acanthus enriched surround to inscription tablet. To right of east window: Elizabeth Strickland, 1674. Moulded plinth, supported by putti, carrying raised bases of Corinthian colonnettes under broken pediment with putti and hatchment. Plaster decoration of festoons, flags, and armour. Laurel enriched surround to inscription panel. To north wall, monument to Sir William Strickland, 1733. Marble. Chest with Greek key fieze and skull motif, under fluted sarcophagus with portrait medallion. Blank inscription panel crowned by broken pediment, with blank hatchment and turkey, set against large obelisk. To south wall, monument to Sir William Strickland, 1767. Hollow-chamfered base to sarcophagus with fluted cabriole legs. Inscription on black marble obelisk with white marble volutes. East window contains painted glass, dated 1768, by Peckitt of York.

Listing NGR: TA1365967974

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