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All Saints

All Saints

Hovingham

North Yorkshire

C11 tower

Architectural Features

nave and chancel of 1860 incorporating some medieval features, by Rhode Hawkins, tower roof of c1970.

C9 Anglian cross carved in high relief set into wall above doorway and below a single course of herringbone masonry.

Norman doorway of 2 orders reset in south porch.

SE6675 : Hovingham, All Saints Church: Fine Saxon carving serving as a reredos in the south chapel

Interior: very fine Saxon carved stone repositioned as reredos to altar in south aisle with 8 arched panels containing figures, those to left representing the Annunciation, above a narrow vine-scroll frieze with birds and beasts.

SE6675 : Hovingham, All Saints Church: Fine Saxon carving serving as a reredos in the south chapel

© Michael Garlick

C10 carved cross with knotted strapwork in relief, repositioned in chancel.

Monuments: to Thomas Worsley, died 1715.

The doorway is late Saxon and on the bottom corner stone is a bench mark.

Taylor H M and Joan, Anglo- Saxon Architecture, Vol 1, 1965.

The doorway is late Saxon and on the bottom corner stone is a bench mark.

© Martin Dawes