Description

HAWSKER-CUM-STAINSACRE HAWSKER LANE NZ 90 NW (west side) 5/143 Church of All Saints - II Church. 1876-77. By E.H.Smales. Rockfaced sandstone on chamfered plinth; ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with red ridge tiles, originally pierced. Timber framed porch. 3-bay nave and south porch; central tower; chancel, and north organ chamber and vestry. Pointed 2-light west window with quatrefoil tracery, rolled sill moulding with foliate stops, and flat impost band. Glazed slit window in gable end. Stack pierces roof pitch to left of gable apex. Gabled porch, partly glazed, partly boarded in, contains flat ogee-arched doorway beneath tympanum with date carved in relief. Two windows to east of porch are of single and triple cusped lancets. Nave north side windows are of similar lancets, two paired and one single. Buttressed tower has lancet bellopenings with scallop-edged louvres. Gabled staircase turret projects on north side behind pent vestry. Steeply hipped tower roof, with finials and cross. South side of chancel has one trefoil and one quatrefoil light, and on north side a cinquefoil. Three rectangular windows in north wall of vestry and organ chamber, and flat ogee-arched doorway in east return. East window is pointed, of three cusped lights beneath quatrefoil tracery. East gable cross. All gables coped. Interior. Two massive cusped arches beneath tower, the west one with rolled hoodmould on floral stops. Cusped and gabled timber chancel screen. Several pretty tiled wall panels and monuments, notably that to Martha McCausland (d.1893) at west end of nave. Two original brass candelabra in nave. Several windows are worthy of note: three in nave north wall, one in south, and one in tower south wall, possibly mid C19, after Alfred Rethel. East and west windows probably by Powell's. The remainder are leaded with delicately tinted glass. Arch-braced king post roof with embattled ties, and quatrefoiled spandrels. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, the North Riding, p.185.

Listing NGR: NZ9222508374

External Links

• Church of All Saints at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26441681

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)