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All Saints

Bishop Burton

East Riding of Yorkshire

Early C13 west tower, early C13 nave

Architectural Features

C14 aisles rebuilt c1821, chancel and south vestry in geometrical style by J L Pearson 1865.

South door of 2 pointed and chamfered orders, the inner on carved corbels under hoodmould.

West wall: projecting carved head to bottom stage, lancet to second stage, similar belfry openings.

Pointed priests' door to east vestry wall with carved nook-shafts all under a continuous string which forms a sill band to the chancel windows.

Pointed chancel arch of 2 moulded orders on nook-shafts with carved capitals and moulded bases.

To south-east corner of the chancel is a C14 piscina: scalloped bowl with foliage and grinning face to sides under a cusped ogee arch with foliage sprigs to cusps.

South west end of,nave: a small C12 carved figure, with long, hanging sleeves, inserted into south wall.

C18 font: a small moulded basin on a polygonal baluster.

Fragments of 2 earlier font basins, one octagonal, lie close by.

Monuments: nave west end: black marble tablet with white lettering

a long inscription in Latin to Sir Tobias Hodson, died 1664.

Alabaster chest tomb to Rachel Gee, died 1684: a recumbent figure in a winding sheet with a child close by on a slab: quatrefoils and an inscription to the base.

Chancel: three brasses.

To the north, a chalice brass to Peter Johnson, vicar, died 1460

a lady, died C15.

South side: a brass to the Ellerker family: date erased, probably early C16.

2 figures with inscription over.