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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

West Tanfield

North Yorkshire

Early C13, late C13, C15 and C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

C15 walls, refaced 1860.

Chancel: C13, 2 bays.

Interior: north arcade of 4 bays, late C13, octagonal piers and capitals, double chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds.

In the north aisle, some C15 stained glass with figures including a large figure of a female saint and a small crucifix.

Monuments: several to the Marmion family: effigies of Sir William Marmion 1275, a lady late C14, and another lady on a tomb chest.

A cross legged knight and a later C14 lady arranged as a couple placed under a tall canopy with openwork cusping

a crocketed gable perhaps late C13.

Alabaster effigies of Sir John Marmion 1387 and his wife on a plain stone plinth, by her head 2 angels, by her feet a dog.

Brass to Thomas Sutton, Rector c1492.