St Robert Of Knaresborough

In the chancel is a low-set C14 ogee-headed piscina, indicating the extent to which the chancel floor has been raised.

In the chancel the stone-paved floor includes C17 and C19 ledgers.

The sanctuary floor has early C20 mosaic memorials, beneath which is a crypt.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The font, probably of 1772, is of polished marble and of unusual oval shape.

The C19 pulpit is polygonal Perpendicular with a figure of the Good Shepherd.

The C19 altar table incorporates C17 panels.

The east window shows the Nativity There are C19 and C20 memorial tablets, and a memorial tablet to the Symeson/Simpson family set up after the death of William Simpson in 1886, by Day of Knaresborough.

HISTORY: A medieval church said to have been damaged by a Scottish raiding party in 1318.

The chancel is C14, the tower probably C15-C16.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Church of St Robert of Knaresborough, Pannal, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For the extent of its medieval fabric, including the well-preserved tower and chancel. * The interior retains a traditional layout with good-quality pews and choir stalls, and has an unusual C18 marble font and re-used C17 panels in the altar table.