All Saints, Slingsby

MATERIALS: medieval stone is calcareous sandstone and includes some carved grave-slab fragments, C19 stone is sandstone (possibly Whitby sandstone).

the roof has panelled battlements and angle finials, each corner having a projecting animal sculpture to the base of the parapet in addition to two medieval gargoyles on the north side.

The south door is pointed and has an embattled porch incorporating an elaborate niche above the entrance retaining a weathered statuette carved from oolitic limestone.

The 5-light chancel window is similar in design to the west window, but incorporates carved panels to the base of the lights.

The north arcade to the nave includes two C13 arches complete with their piers as well as a C13 stiff-leaf corbel reset at the west end.

The chancel is elaborately treated, with marble shafts and carved capitals to the arches and an alabaster dado to the east wall.

The reredos is formed by the carved and painted panels to the base of the east window, decorated with shields bearing the Instruments of the Passion.

The chancel and west windows contain stained glass by Clayton and Bell, with further stained glass to the vesica and three of the aisle windows.

MONUMENTS: in a recess in the side chapel there is the effigy of a mid-C13 knight with hands in prayer and legs crossed (lower portion missing) believed to be a member of the Wyvill family.

FITTINGS: oak choir stalls, pulpit and other fittings, the altar rail also incorporating elaborate ironwork.

Carved oak screen dated 1928 to the tower arch.

C17 bobbin-ended oak bench, other pews, forming a complete set, are also oak, but C19.

The very large brass chandelier in the nave is thought to have come from Sledmere church and to have been designed by either Street or Pearson.