Saint Mary

Wharram le Street

North Yorkshire

Of tower and nave with early C12 insertions, C14 north aisle with additional late C18 or early C19 west bay, C19 rebuilding of south nave wall, chancel of 1862.

SAXON NORMAN C12 C14 FONT MONUMENT

Architectural Features

NORMAN

West front: 4-stage tower with blocked round-headed doorway of 2 moulded orders on narrow shafts with pendant triangle capitals, probably of Norman date.

NORMAN

South porch contains Norman round-headed door with arch of 5 orders, the innermost rolled, the outermost with billet and zigzag.

NORMAN FONT

Norman tub font.

MONUMENT

Monument on west wall of north aisle to James Fox, died 1790.

SAXON

For detailed arguments concerning the dating of the fabric of the tower and nave and their features, see Bilson J, "Wharram-le-Street Church, Yorkshire and Saint Rule's Church, Saint Andrew's, Archaeologia, 73, 1923, pp 55-72, Taylor H M and Joan, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Vol II, 1965, pp 647-653, and Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.