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St Helen and the Holy Cross

St Helen And The Holy Cross

Sheriff Hutton

North Yorkshire

C12 nave

Architectural Features

lower part of tower, C13 chancel with substantial rebuilding in C15, C14 aisles, C15 chapels, vestry

upper part of tower, early C16 clerestory, late C18 porch.

Upper stage has twin belfry openings on string course to each face, and battlemented parapet with pinnacles and gargoyles.

The interior contains a C14 tower arch, C14 foliate capitals and a single lancet in the north wall of the chancel.

Brass in north-east end of nave to Dorothea and John Ffenys, dated 1491 and depicting two swaddled children.

North chapel contains brass to its benefactor, Thomas Wytham, died 1481.

An alabaster tomb with effigy of a child, generally regarded to represent Edward, Prince of Wales, son of Richard III, died 1484, but now more convincingly identified as early/mid C15, possibly Ralph Neville, died c1436.

Stone effigy of Sir Edmund Thweng of Cornborough Manor, died 1344.

Probable C15 door into vestry.

C17 altar rail.

Box pews, from C17 to C19.

Some C14 stained glass in north aisle window.