Listing Text

SE 76 SW BUTTERCRAMBE MAIN STREET
WITH BOSSALL
(east side)
Bossall
4/3 (1/1) Church of St Botolph

29 1 53
- I

Church. Late C12 nave, transepts and tower (with C15 upper stage) and late
C13 chancel, with C19 restoration including rebuilding of west gable in
1859. Dressed limestone and sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Cruciform plan.
3-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay transepts, crossing tower, 3-bay chancel.
String-course and corbel table to nave, transepts and tower. Round-headed
windows to nave (except for round window to west gable). C19 south porch
contains door of 4 orders of shafts with dogtooth and stylised flowers
between, and waterleaf capitals, carrying deeply moulded round arch. North
door as south, but of one order only. Transept windows: lancets except for
round-headed windows to south transept west wall and late C13 2-light window
to north transept east wall. Chancel: one flat-arched and two 2-light
pointed windows to north. To south, blocked round-arched priests' door and
two 2-light Perpendicular windows. Interior: crossing with triple responds,
central one being keeled, carrying triple-chamfered arches. Plain moulded
capitals. Font: lobed bowl, probably C14 with C17 wooden cover. Royal Arms
1710, painted on wood. Monuments: brass to Robert Constable, died 1457, and
wall memorial to Robert Belt, died 1630, and his wife, died 1662, consisting
of tablet flanked by Corinthian pilasters supporting broken segmental
pediment with achievement, the whole resting on brackets with carved angel
between. Pevsner, Yorkshire: The North Riding, 1966.

Listing NGR: SE7183460749