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All Saints

All Saints

Preston

East Riding of Yorkshire

C13 north arcade, C14 south arcade

Architectural Features

C15 north aisle, north chapel and tower

C15 - early C16 south aisle and clerestory.

pointed 4-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, moulded transom, and ogee hoodmould, continued as string course, supporting a niche containing a worn seated figure holding a shield, the niche with carved paterae to the corbel, sexpartite ribbed canopy, moulded arch with carved spandrels, moulded string course and tall crocketed pinnacle.

Gargoyles to angles (apart from south-west), coped parapet with chamfered round-headed openings, 8 crocketed pinnacles (that to south-west restored) with ogee gablets to the shafts.

Chapel section to east has partly-restored 4-centred- arched traceried north and east windows, small Tudor-arched chamfered north door.

Chancel: south side has chamfered round-headed door, single lancet, pair of C19 trefoiled lancets and restored Cl5-C16 square-headed 2-light window with trefoiled lights and incised spandrels

C14-C15 pointed 5-light transomed east window with Perpendicular tracery and restored mullions, flanked by C19 pointed chamfered niches

Tall double hollow-chamfered tower arch with continuous outer chamfer and inner chamfered responds with moulded bases and capitals, the latter bearing rustic-foliate relief carving.

Chancel has 2-bay north arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches on an octagonal pier with plain moulded capital and base, and corbelled responds with worn rustic carvings of angels holding shields.

Monuments.

Series of floorslabs in north aisle, mostly C18 - early C19, including black marble slab to Dame Eleanora Oxenden of 1728 with roundel containing relief carving of hatchment and crest supported by fronds, and another to Raphe Johnson (d1590) and wife Alice (d1610) with marginal inscription and later inscriptions to Burnsall Family.

oval tablet to Joseph Whisker of 1819 with inscribed verse and gilded winged angel above

C15 octagonal font with bold foliate carvings to underside, octagonal shaft and base.

Display case in south aisle contains slightly worn fragments of fine C15 Nottingham alabaster relief carvings, probably originally part of an easter sepulchre or altar- piece, with figures of soldiers, worshippers etc, discovered during the 1880 restorations buried near the pulpit.