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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Keyingham

East Riding of Yorkshire

C12-C13 nave

Architectural Features

late C13 nave arcades, chancel

tower (the latter partly rebuilt in late C14 - early C15)

C14 chapel, C15 porch and clerestory.

re-set carved heads above

South chapel: moulded plinth, buttresses with gabled coping, one to south incorporating carved gargoyle

Tall pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with inner order dying into chamfered jambs, the north side cutting a small round-arched recess, perhaps a C12 entrance to rood-loft.

C19 roofs throughout: 4-bay nave roof has cranked tie-beams with king and queen posts, pierced trefoiled panels and carved pendants, and corbelled wall posts with arch braces and carved spandrels.

Monuments: black marble floor slab in chancel to John Angell of 1647 with Latin inscription and incised arms in cartouche

marble bracket with carved apron in chancel for marble wall tablet re-set in north aisle to the same John Angell, of 1647, with Latin inscription in shouldered and eared architrave, foliate ornament, and open segmental pediment carrying carved and painted achievement in cartouche

marble wall tablets in south aisle to Edward Ombler of 1802 with fluted pilasters and draped urn, and to Edward Ombler of 1825 with carved pediment and arms.

Good C13 font with large cylindrical bowl bearing arcading of pointed Y-traceried trefoiled arches.

South aisle contains re- set carved wooden roof corbels, probably C15, with faces, foliage, fleur-de- lys etc. C16-C17 wrought-iron hour-glass stand beside pulpit with hour glass in wooden holder.