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Saint Gregory

Saint Gregory

Bedale

North Yorkshire

C13, C15 and C19.

Architectural Features

5 stage C13-C15 tower: Decorated style with Perpendicular-style bell stage.

Diagonally-set gargoyles at corners.

Stone parapet and tile roof.

C15 board door.

East window of 5 cusped lights with C13 tracery and hoodmould, said to have come from Jervaulx Abbey (Pevsner, North Yorkshire, p 75).

North arcade: C13, first pier octagonal, second quatrefoil with keeled foils, the third cruciform with concave re-entrant angles.

South arcade: C13 octogonal piers with double-chamfered arches.

In the crypt, part of a late C9 round cross shaft with plait and rope motifs and a carving of the Virgin Mary of the same date.

Round altar wooden panels with profile hands in medallions of c1540, also C17 Dutch or Flemish panels.

2 small figures of apostles of the early C19.

St George

Wall paintings: on the chancel arch, some ornamental patterns of the C13.

St George

© John Salmon

On the north aisle wall St George and Dragon, C14.

Monuments: to Sir Bryan Fitzalan and his wife with recumbant effigies, early C15, his in alabaster under nodding ogee canopy, hers in stone.

C14 effigy of priest in north chapel.

In north aisle memorial in black marble to Thomas Jackson died 1529.