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St Helen

St Helen

Amotherby

North Yorkshire

C16 tower

Architectural Features

Gabled south porch contains reset C12 doorway with roll-moulded round arch on attached shafts with scalloped capitals: hoodmould with re-used beakhead mouldings as stops.

Beneath the window 4 carved stones have been set, dated 1708, and probably recording the names of the masons for the restorations of that date.

Interior: traces of a blocked round tower arch, probably C12 or earlier, are visible within the tower in the east wall.

Beneath is a C14 tomb slab carved with a foliated cross and inscribed: ICI GIT WILLEM DE BORDESDON PRIZ PUR LA ALME.

In the porch a number of stone fragments have been set, including 2 Anglo- Danish cross fragments, part of a foliated grave slab and part of a C14 grave slab carved with a quatrefoil enclosing a female figure.