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St Mary

St Mary

Scorton

North Yorkshire

C16, restored 1857.

Architectural Features

Tower: late C16.

Diagonal buttresses to west with carving to offsets.

Inner doorway: C14.

Chancel: C15.

C17 chamfered, quoined, flat-headed priest's door, flanked by flat-headed 3- light cinquefoiled windows.

Interior: early C14 3-bay south arcade, with double-chamfered pointed arches on circular columns with heads on responds.

North vestry: C15.

Early C14 trefoiled piscina in south aisle.

Sanctuary: encaustic wall tiles by Eden Nesfield, 1877.

Set in south wall at west end: parts of 4 medieval tomb slabs with elaborate crosses.

Beside pulpit, part of Anglo- Danish cross-shaft with rope moulding.

C16 parish chest at west end of nave.

Grade-II listed (see: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-322317-jenkins-obelisk-approximately-ten-metres#.VkieIKQnymQ ) obelisk commemorating Henry Jenkins, who reputedly lived to the age of 169.

Monuments: large black marble tablet in architrave on south wall near chancel arch, set up after 1743 to commemorate death in 1670 of Henry Jenkins aged 169

Grade-II listed (see: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-322317-jenkins-obelisk-approximately-ten-metres#.VkieIKQnymQ ) obelisk commemorating Henry Jenkins, who reputedly lived to the age of 169.

© Bill Harrison

on east wall of north aisle, several monuments to Crowe family of Kiplin, including Robert Crowe, d1818, by Taylor of York.