Architectural Features
including the insertion of some windows and those of C15 to fourth stage of tower and south porch
To third bay a late Norman single-light window, with shafts, scallops, scrolls and faces to capitals and dogtooth moulding to head.
Other bays have single-light Norman windows with nook-shafts, faces and other motifs to capitals and zigzag moulding to heads.
Norman-style windows are similar to those in the nave but have continuous hoodmould.
North side: to second bay a Norman-style vestry has round- arched plank door to west side with roll-moulded hood
Otherwise north side has single- light Norman-style windows as south side.
Norman chancel arch has three orders of zigzag moulding on shafts with scallop capitals under decorated hoodmould.
Norman tub font carved with figures and animals.
Pevsner describes Kirkburn as the second-best Norman church in the East Riding (after Newbald), although the chancel was rebuilt in the 1850s. The top of the west tower is Perpendicular and the stage below is Early English, but the nave is Norman. The tower arch is very tall and has very steep steps leading up inside it. The font is early Norman and is described by Pevsner as “a barbaric jumble”.