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All Saints

All Saints

Halsham

East Riding of Yorkshire

Early C12 nave with later C12 nave arcade

Architectural Features

C12 chancel with C14 south and east sides

C14 tower, south arcade

aisle, C15 north aisle, refacing and buttresses to lower stage of tower.

First stage: pointed 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould, small ogee-headed niche above with carved angel corbel and flanking pinnacled buttress shafts

Moulded string course, gargoyle to west, coped embattled parapet.

pointed moulded door of 2 orders beneath ogee hoodmould with carved finial, flanked by buttress shafts with finials

Chapel: chamfered quoins, chamfered round-headed west door with raised imposts and keystone with skull and cross-bones carved in relief, square-headed 2-light window above with incised spandrels

Nave: segment of C11 round-headed north window with scalloped capital (shaft missing) supporting section of roll-moulded arch

section of former Cll corbel table with 4 corbels to east (3 of them carved heads) and one reset carved head corbel to west.

South aisle has small trefoiled piscina with stiff-leaf carving in spandrels. windows to aisles have moulded reveals and mullions, those to north especially ornate.

South side of chancel contains section of plain C11-C12 sedilia with hollowed back

plain moulded arm-rest to single seat, cut by fine C14 triple sedilia with flanking colonettes supporting tall buttress shafts with crocketed pinnacles and large blind crocketed ogee arch with curvilinear tracery and finely- carved finial

fine composite chest tomb of Sir John Constable of 1451 or 1477 with alabaster effigy of praying knight, feet on hound, head on dragon, set on reused black marble matrix with indents for brass border, shields and knight

chest has ashlar base and alabaster relief panels with crocketed ogee arches and flanking buttress shafts, the north and south sides with alternating paterae and angels holding shields, the east and west ends with figures of St Christopher and Madonna and child, and inserted ashlar quatrefoil panels.

Good octagonal oak pulpit dated 1634 with carved panels and rails.

C19 octagonal font.

The fine C14 detailing in the chancel is similar to work at St Patrick's, Patrington (qv), and St Mary's, Welwick (qv), and the distinctive south arcade and tower arch mouldings also similar to those at Welwick.