St Germain

late C13 north door, C14 south arcade, late C14-C15 chancel arch and windows to chancel and nave.

South aisle demolished, south chapel built in early C17.

Repairs to chancel in C17, perhaps when north door replaced in 1694.

Chancel: quoins, chamfered plinth, small pointed trefoiled south window, corbel-table to south wall with 9 re-set C12 and later corbels, including carved human and animal heads

east wall has blocked chamfered Tudor-arched door, pair of recessed rectangular panels in chamfered reveals and 2 similar heraldic tablets

Pointed double-chamfered inner arch with door dated 1694 and inscribed with names of churchwardens.

Chancel has double sedilia with pointed chamfered arches, pointed chamfered piscina with restored bowl, blocked pointed north door, carved marble reredos of 1889-90.

Restored C15 4-bay nave roof with corbelled wall-posts and carved spandrels to moulded tie beams (some original) with carved bosses, scissor-braces with struts and carved shields, side purlins with wind braces, and king struts to ridge piece

restored C17 moulded coupled-rafter roof to south chapel

Monuments.

In nave: C14 - C15 two-thirds life-size priest effigy reset in west bay of aisle, with moulded base and head beneath crocketed ogee arch

fine chest tomb of Sir Christopher Hildyard probably from London workshop, with knight effigy lying on rolled mat with cockerel at feet, and ornate inscribed chest with pilasters bearing carved lamps, hourglass, figure, etc, flanking panels bearing arms in strapwork surrounds with carved fruit

wall tablet to George Dickeson, Hull Customs Officer, of 1680, with inscribed cartouche, grotesque below and arms with urn above

In chancel: black marble floorslab with brass bearing black letter inscription to William de Retherby, Rector recording his building of the "choir and church"

black marble floorslab with incomplete C16 brasses of knight, lady

groups of kneeling sons and daughters, and indent for border, possibly cut from a C14 Flemish monument

floor-slab with C19 inscribed brasses to William and Catherine Hildyard.

In Hildyard Chapel: wall monuments to Christopher Hildyard of 1684, with Latin inscribed cartouche in ornate carved surround surmounted by arms and flaming urn

to Robert Hildyard of 1729, with inscribed tablet and obelisk with carved arms and urn, flanked by flaming lamps

wall tablet to William Hildyard of 1842 with coffin and carved arms in relief

Fine restored C15 oak chancel screen, of 5 bays: blind traceried 2-light lower panels with sub-cusped trefoiled pointed arches and intersecting tracery above, upper panels with pointed 2-light openings with ornate Perpendicular and curvilinear tracery and nodding sub-cusped crocketed ogee heads, pointed central opening with Perpendicular-traceried head, restored fan-vaulting supporting gallery with ornate frieze

North and west screens to south chapel, made in 1889 from C17 panelling used for former Hildyard pew: blind elliptical-arched panels with ornate carved pilasters and spandrels, doors with cocks'-head hinges, restored balustrade above with drop-on-drop balusters.

Good C17 octagonal wooden panelled pulpit supported on baluster-shaped column and brackets, with closed-string staircase and balustrade with corniced handrail, vase balusters with square and round knops and newel with vase finial

Plain C14 octagonal font bowl on restored shaft

steps incorporating fragment of C13 incised graveslab.

Fragments of C14-C15 stained glass in chancel south window (formerly in east window) with inscription and head of priest, perhaps William de Retherby.

Royal Arms of 1792

3 hatchments of Hildyard family.

Brass lectern of 1890 designed by Sir Gilbert Scott.

J Cornforth, "Winestead, Yorkshire", Country Life, 11 Sept 1980, pp 846-9