Description

HOLKHAM HOLKHAM PARK

TF 84SE

5/40 Church of St Withburga

6.3.59 II*

G.V.
Parish Church: the dedication is said to be unique. C13 tower on S side, western
part of S aisle, but entire building extensively rebuilt in 1767 and in 1868-9
by James K Colling. Flint with limestone dressings. Plain tiled roofs to nave
and chancel. Flushwork panels in parapets of tower, charnel and aisles. Tower
with set-back buttresses up to first stage. Two early C13 lancet windows, bell
openings with 'Y' tracery, probably rebuilt in C19 works. C19 south door in tower
with double opening and quatrefoiled spandrel. Embattled parapet With corner
pinnacles. C13 W window in S aisle and C14 two light window in S aisle. Perp.
N and S chancel aisle window: c19 W window of 3 lights with Decorated door below,
C19 east window of 5 lights, and all other windows date from C19 restoration.

Interior: 4 bay arcades, octagonal piers probably late C14, quatrefoil piers to
2 easternmost bays. Chapel with parclose screen at E end of N aisle. Roofs
C19 arch-braced collars with short wall posts on corbels. Coffin lids C11 set
in floor at W end of nave. Two early C17 monuments by Nicholas Stone and
Robert Pook: Miles Armiger, 1639 with good kneeling alabaster figure on S well
of S chapel; John and Muriel Cook and their family with three pairs of kneeling
figures, on E wall of S chapel. Fine alabaster reclining ligate on tomb chest
by Boehm to Juliana, Countess of Leicester, d.1870.

Listing NGR: TF8780443631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556162

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]