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St Helen

St Helen

Skeffling

East Riding of Yorkshire

Chancel: diagonal and mid buttresses, Tudor-arched chamfered door, similar square- headed 2- and 3-light windows to south side

Architectural Features

Moulded string course throughout, with single carved head spout to south aisle

Arcades of pointed double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases, the responds with finely-carved corbels supporting short octagonal wall shafts: angels holding shields to east responds, lion's head and squatting woman to west.

C19 roofs, that to chancel with moulded beams and carved bosses

pair of original carved head and foliate roof bosses hung on chancel arch.

Monuments in chancel: C15 floor slab with black-letter border inscription

wall monument to John and Dinah Holme of c1749, with marble tablet in scrolled ashlar surround supporting entablature with winged cherub's head and dentilled open pediment with flaming lamps and arms in cartouche

3 standing marble wall monuments: to Rev John Holme of 1775, to Henry Holme of 1778, and to Margaret Reaston of 1781, the latter (and possibly others) by Rushworth of Beverley, all with tablets surmounted by urns and with obelisk bases, the later pair also with carved arms and palm fronds.

C15 octagonal font with plain moulded bowl and column with broach stops.