Description

MARKET HILL 1. 5266 (West Side) All the medieval monuments in the garden of No 3 (Ivy House) TA 1828 NE 1/54 II 2. Collected by James Iveson (who lived in Ivy House from 1807) from various East Riding Churches. 1. Steps opposite front door of house flanked by parts of a deeply moulded C14 ashlar pier. 2. Compound pier (probably C14), chamfered, stands to 3 ft; 5 yds west of north-west corner of house. 3. Arcade composed of fragments of elaborate C13 and C14 mouldings, immediately south of Albina's Tomb. Reputedly from Kilnsea or Owthorne. 4. Albina's Tomb: a small summerhouse north-west of north-west corner of the house, composed of fragments, reputed to have come from Owthorne (or possibly Kilnsea). Front wall hammer-dressed stone. Moulded cornice and C14 or C15 parapet. Ashlar gable with C15 2-light chamfered window: each light with ogee tracery. Late C12, or early C13 round-arched door: colonnettes in jambs with dog-tooth to bases, crocketed capitals, moulded voussoirs, one order of dog-tooth. Flanked by pilasters (probably late C12 or early C13) with moulded profiles and moulded capitals, taking 2 figures, one of a Bishop and one of a King (probably C13). Inside, the south side has the voussoirs of a C12 door, ornamented with zig-zag and nailhead. Moulded voussoirs of a 2-centred lancet. East side has hood mould of a round-arched door and 2 C14 foliage capitals. North side has voussoirs of chamfered lancet with nearly straight shanks. Head of a C14 door, with traceried cusps, and foliate capitals. West wall has clustered colonnettes of a respond corbel. Cartouche inscribed "THIS MARKET CROSS WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1733 BY WILLIAM PULTNEY, ESQ." In the south-west is an ashlar spiral staircase leading to the external parapet. 5. Archway, ashlar, 2-centred, jambs moulded, voussoirs chamfered; about 10 yds west of Albina's Tomb. Reputedly from HOLLYm. 6. C15 arcade with cusped arches: cornice (presumably C13) with dog-tooth ornament: flanked by 2 heads of angels. Three yds west of 5. Possibly from the west front of Hedon church. 7. Two C14 compound piers with moulded capitals, 3 yds west of 6. Reputedly from Marfleet. 8. Tomb or chantry reassembled from fragments, apparently C14, said in one version, to be part of the original Percy tomb at Beverley, and, in another version, to resemble the original Percy tomb at Beverley. 9. Doorway reconstructed from fragments, presumably C15, of west door of Holy Trinity, Hull.

Listing NGR: TA1872628825

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