Description

BESWICK KILNWICK SE 94 NE 2/8 Church of All Saints 16/2 7.2.68 II *

Church. C12 or earlier nave, early C13 north aisle, C13 chancel, C15 west tower, (rebuilt above ground level in C17); the whole church largely rebuilt c1871. Ashlar built slate roofs. 2-stage west tower, 4-bay nave (originally 5 bays) with north aisle and north porch, 2-bay chancel. West tower: chamfered plinth. Protruding stair turret under pentice roof to north-east corner. Round-headed belfry openings, with louvres. Band beneath crenellated parapet. Nave: chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets. Paired lancets with attached central shaft. C12 north door of 2 orders on nook-shafts with scalloped capitals: inner order of beakhead, outer order of stylised beakhead with a single beast head at crown of arch. Chancel: chamfered plinth, paired lancet with central attached shaft to east, pointed priests' door to west. Large, blocked, pointed opening to extreme west. 3-light pointed east window with C19 tracery under hoodmould with foliated stops. Coped gable. Interior: north arcade of 4 pointed double-chamfered arches (and the remains of a fifth dying into the west wall of the nave) on cylindical piers with octagonal abaci. The second pier from the west has a capital bearing stylised leaf ornament. Chancel: 2 memorial tablets on the north wall to family of Grimston, of Grimston Garth in Holderness. The first Memorial tablet is by Fisher of York to John Grimston (died 1780) and to Jane his wife (died 1758). Tablet with paterae beneath an enriched cornice and a sarcophagus decorated with rams' heads. The second by Cheere to Thomas Grimston died 1752: eared and shouldered tablet under a round pediment flanked by putti under a coat of arms. Mid C17 pulpit with decorated panels under a cornice enriched with projecting diamonds. Small organ of 1836 in a Gothick case. Early C13 font with cable ornament to shallow bowl.

Listing NGR: SE9970749517

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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