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All Saints

All Saints

Weston

North Yorkshire

Norman origin, addition dated 1686, with early C19 vestry and repairs to nave and chancel.

Architectural Features

Nave: gabled single-storey porch, 8-panelled door in eared architrave with keystone inscribed '1686' and cornice

Windows to right of porch: narrow C12 lancet, 3-light Perpendicular window and 2-light chamfered mullion window with round-headed lights, Chancel, south side, (set back from line of nave): bay 1 - a 6-panel door of 2 leaves under a pointed arch with hoodmould and plaque above inscribed: "THIS CHURCH / was repaired and amended / AD 1819 / The Nave was done / at the expense of the Parish / The Chancel / by William Vavasour Esqr / Revd John Carter MA Vicar / John Lenty, John Mountain, Churchwardens".

3 carved stones built into the chancel north wall are the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross.

Interior: round early C19 chancel arch on C12 jambs and double-chamfered arch to family pew

Other memorials and hatchments to the Vavasour and Dawson families are in the family pew and a fine stone plaque to William Vavasour is on the chancel south wall.

The nave contains a fine C18 3-decker pulpit with sounding board against the south wall, box-pews, and a font with octagonal stem and small bowl, the cover having a ball finial.

Country Life, Nov 13, 1958, p 1116.