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All Saints

All Saints

West Heslerton

North Yorkshire

C13 chancel, partly rebuilt in 1859.

Architectural Features

In chancel, late C13 - early C14 segment-arched Easter Sepulchre with filleted roll moulding, beneath crocketed, gabled canopy with crocket finial.

Gable tympanum contains crudely carved Coronation of the Virgin enclosed in quatrefoil moulding, between spandrels carved with foliage.

Below is a tomb with carved panelled sides of paired, pointed lights, beneath band of quatrefoils.

Plain octagonal font on quatrefoil pedestal, donated by Viscount Downe and probably by W.Butterfield.

Monuments: 3 late C17 grave slabs in the sanctuary to members of the Barnard family.

On nave south wall, a tall wall tablet with fulsome memorial to Sir Christopher Sykes of Sledmere, the noted agriculturalist , erected by his daughter and carved by W Plows of York.

Fittings: C19 brass chandelier in chancel.