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St Patrick

St Patrick

Patrick Brompton

North Yorkshire

Late C12, C1320, restored 1864.

Architectural Features

C19 west tower, late C12 nave with C14 aisles, C19 south porch, C14 chancel and vestry, early C20 organ chamber.

Inner doorway: C12, of 3 pointed orders with roll, chevron and zigzag motifs, with water-leaf capitals to shafts.

Interior: C12 four- bay north arcade, of shafted columns with water-leaf capitals and rolled pointed arches with chevrons, the easternmost arch lower and of slightly earlier date.

C14 four-bay south arcade of filleted quadrilobate columns with octagonal capitals and arches of 2 stepped chamfered orders, the easternmost arch earlier, with chevron and roll motifs.

In chancel: small brass below piscina to Thomas Lowden, d1666, and wall monuments to Gregory Elsley, Gent, c1716, with elaborate cartouche above a skull, Rev Heneage Elsley d1833 with Greek inscription by Skelton of York, and Gregory Elsley Esq d1823 by Webster of Kendal.

Fragments of medieval glass in west window of north aisle.