Description

SKIPSEA BEEFORD ROAD TA 15 SE (west side) 10/47 Church of All Saints 30.6.66 GV I

Church. Cll nave and chancel with later additions and alterations including C15 tower, aisles and clerestory, and additions and restorations of c1856-60 by Fowler of Louth including south porch, north vestry and arcades; C20 boiler house of no special interest. Coursed and galleted pebbles with brick and ashlar dressings; magnesian limestone south aisle, slate roof. 3- stage west tower, 4-bay aisled nave with clerestory, south porch, 2-bay chancel. Tower: chamfered plinth. Diagonal buttresses with offsets. To west end a 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery to head, with re-cut hollow-chamfered mullions and within chamfered surround. Slit window. Boiler house to north. Second stage has slit window to south. Band. Twin-light bell opening with Perpendicular tracery to heads within pointed double-chamfered surrounds. Low parapet. Nave: south aisle has chamfered plinth and diagonal buttress with offsets to eastern end. Entrance to south porch in second bay, a round-arched opening below shaped gable; within a plank door in moulded surround. 3-light pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery to heads throughout, some re-cut, with continuous sill band. Hollow-chamfered eaves string course. Battlements. North aisle: diagonal buttresses with offsets. Off-centre entrance, now blocked, within double-ovolo-moulded surround under hoodmould, 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery under hoodmould. Battlements. To west return a similar 2-light window. Clerestory: 2-trefoiled-light, straight-headed windows. Battlements with crocketed corner pinnacles. Chancel: to south side a blocked priest's door within pointed chamfered surround under hoodmould, 3-light pointed Perpendicular window under hoodmould with face stops. To north side a single-bay vestry with chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with offsets, 2-light Perpendicular-type windows and entrance to east return, a plank door within chamfered surround under hoodmould with face stops, battlements. East end: 4-light pointed window with reticulated tracery to head within double-chamfered surround. Stone coping with ridge cross. Interior. Pointed double-chamfered tower arch on octagonal responds with moulded capitals and chamfered bases. 4-bay double-chamfered arcade on octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals. Double-chamfered chancel arch on moulded corbels and under hoodmould. Chancel has plank door to vestry in pointed, chamfered surround under hoodmould. Neo-classical monument to George Green d 1831 by Thomas Earle of Hull. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1978, p340.

Listing NGR: TA1655854978

External Links

• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Church of All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q17533850

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