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St Gregorys Minster

St Gregorys Minster

Welburn

North Yorkshire

Nave c.1060

Architectural Features

C13 arcade

north wall, raised in C15

late C13 north chapel, now vestry

Reset C13 pointed doorway under corbelled dripmoulded in chancel south wall, with single lancet to left.

C15 3-light window with cusped heads recessed in squared surround to right of porch.

In the wall to the left of tower is 3 reset Saxon cross shaft, and Saxon quoins which survive the later rebuilding of trio north wall.

Interior: Saxon west doorway, now tower arch: narrow and round - arched, with quoined 'jambs and shafts to west with rough block capitals (Pevsner).

The font is believed to be medieval.

Other fittings include a C13 octagonal font,

The font is believed to be medieval.

© Maigheach-gheal

alter rails donated in 1635.

There are old crosses embedded in the walls, but this seems like a fragment of something else.
There is more carving below the knotwork panel, which seems to have continued into a piece of stone originally too substantial to be a cross shaft.

Two Saxon grave slabs are preserved between, the arcade columns, also the remains of a C14 carved stone Virgin and Child.

There are old crosses embedded in the walls, but this seems like a fragment of something else. There is more carving below the knotwork panel, which seems to have continued into a piece of stone originally too substantial to be a cross shaft.

© Colin Grice

There are two bells, one c. l300, the other from 1400-1450.

Over the doorway within the porch a Saxon sundial has survived almost intact.