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SE 5670
7/15

CRAYKE
CHURCH HILL (north east side)
Church of St Cuthbert

17.5.60

GV
I
Church. C15 on earlier site. North aisle 1865. Ashlar. Roof concealed. Perpendicular. West tower, three bay single-aisled nave, two bay chancel and south porch. Two stage tower has three-light window and two stage bell opening. Nave and chancel: two-light elliptical windows with hood moulds, partly restored. Battlements and pinnacles throughout, C19 gargoyles. Plinth and buttresses with off-sets.

Interior: tower and chancel arches double chamfered. Three-light east window with glass by W Waites, pre-1852. Good low-pitch oak roofs with moulded tie beams on corbels, some replaced timbers. Chancel screen, incorporated some C15 work. C15 font. Pulpit dated 1637. C17 pews with straight tops and knobs at each end. Late C16 monument to Sir John Gibson and his wife with recumbent stone effigies.

Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, N Riding, 1966, p 130-1.

Listing NGR: SE5603870655

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Cuthbert's Church, Crayke at Wikipedia
• St Cuthbert's Church, Crayke official website
• Wikidata Q7592903

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)