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Saint Mary

Saint Mary

Cottingham

East Riding of Yorkshire

Early C14 nave aisles and transepts, late C14 chancel

Architectural Features

south porch, C15 central tower.

blocked early C14 pointed window to east wall.

pointed priest's door, reused from early C14 context, under a hoodmould with grotesque stops.

The C14 hoodmoulds are visible above.

Chancel: fine brass to Nicholas de Luda , a Capuchin friar, who built the chancel: a full-length figure in prayer under a crocketed ogee canopy with frieze above.

Small brass of inferior quality in south wall to John Smith and his wife who died 1504.

The church contains a large number of C18 wall tablets and memorials chief among which are 2 to Ralph Burton, died 1768 (a lengthy inscription beneath an achievement of arms against a dark obelisk), and William Burton of Hotham died 1764, (an inscription on a plinth to an urn with wreaths and drops of roses beneath a small coat of arms on a dark obelisk) both at the west end of the church.

Stained glass: a large amount by Capronnier, and remarkable for the range of colour: the east window of 1875, the west window of 1882, the south transept south window of 1885, the south-east window 1890, the south transept south window of 1885, the south- east window 1890: also by Capronnier are a south chancel window and another in the north aisle.