Description

TA 05 NE NAFFERTON WESTGATE (north side) 7/80 Church of All Saints

20/9/66 - I

Church. C12 nave, late C13 chancel, C14 and C15 aisles, C15 west tower, C19 porches. Ashlar with slate roofs. West tower, 4-bay aisled nave and north and south porches, 5-bay chancel. West tower: moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets. 2-light pointed belfry openings with cusped tracery under stopped hood-moulds. Embattled parapet, crocketed corner pinnacles. West door under 4-centred head with continuous mouldings and stopped hood-mould. West window: pointed, of 3 lights, with Perpendicular tracery under hood-mould with beast stops. Nave: chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets. 3-light window with ogee tracery in square-headed chamfered surrounds. Clerestory has 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under 4-centre heads. South door: pointed, double-chamfered, with hood-mould. Hollow-chamfered string-course below eaves, raised coped gable with cross finial. Chancel: high chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets. 2-light pointed window with Geometrical tracery to west, C19 lancet with cusped tracery and stopped hood-mould to east. Coped gable with cross finial. Pointed east window with intersecting tracery, enclosing sexfoil at apex, under stopped hood-mould. Interior: C14 south arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches dying into lozenge-section piers. C15 north arcade: octagonal piers on raised bases with moulded capitals carrying pointed double-chamfered arches. Nave roof: probably C17. Kerb-rafter roof with tie-beams with struts and slender arch-braces, double side-purlins, queen posts with pendants, raking struts, and collars, and each truss filled with ornate, fretted, cusped and ogee tracery. Chancel arch with attached shafts: C12 scalloped capital with volutes to left, C12 cushion-capital with cable and leaf ornament to right. Rebuilt 4-centred arch of 2 square orders, the inner enriched with ball ornament to the nave. Squint to south of chancel arch with chamfered pointed opening to chancel, lintel shouldered on ogee curves to nave. C12 tub font with lozenge ornament rising to loops surmounted by a cable moulding at the rim. Effigy of child in north aisle wall, recumbent effigies of couple, partly entwined in tracey, in north aisle east end. Tomb recess with hood-mould partly concealed in south aisle wall. East window signed by Wailes, 1854. C19 box pews throughout.

Listing NGR: TA0548158929

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