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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Snaith

East Riding of Yorkshire

C12 north and south walls to transepts and responds to nave arcades

Architectural Features

C13 tower and west bay to nave arcade

early C14 chancel, later C14 vestry

C15 arcades, chancel arch, clerestory, aisles, north and south chapels, buttresses, parapets.

clay tile repairs and patching.

square-headed 4-light traceried west window with hoodmould incorporating carved shields, and corbel table above.

C12 chamfered west responds

lower and narrower C13 western bay with corbelled inner order.

Carved shields above north arcade

C15 painted niche to south-east pier inscribed to Saint Osyth.

Pointed triple-chamfered north and south tower arches with moulded corbels, those to west with carved heads and stiff-leaf ornament.

South transept (Guild Chapel of the Holy Trinity) has cusped ogee-headed niche to east wall and remains of C14-C15 niche or piscina to south window with section of moulded arch, carved spandrel and brattished frieze

Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on octagonal responds, squint to south, corbels for former rood screen.

inscribed C13 grave slab reused as north window sill

large C16 black marble matrix for monumental brass, perhaps to Abbot of Selby, with indents for figure flanked by shields, staff etc

wall tablet to William Shearburn and others, of c1846, by W Audby of York, with carved frieze and cornice

wall tablet to John Eadon, of 1833, by Flintoft of York, with carved coffin and arms on obelisk base.

Dawnay Chapel to south has pointed double-chamfered west arch, C15 sepulchre or niche to south with sub-cusped ogee arch in castellated surround, altar tomb to Sir John Dawnay (d1493) with painted carved arms of Dawnay family and associates, applied moulded segmental arch to north, and pointed niche or aumbry above

image bracket to east wall with carved arms, and wrought-iron brackets above carrying pieces of armour and knight effigies, relics of Sir Thomas Dawnay, (d1642)

fragments of medieval glass to east window

floor slab of 1436 to Radulphus Aclome and Margaret his wife, daughter of John Dawnay, with incised cross and inscribed border

good white Carrara marble monument to John Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe, of 1837, by F Chantrey, with life-sized standing figure in parliamentary robes on inscribed cylindrical base.

Stapleton Chapel to north has good warble wall monument to Lady Elizabeth Stapleton, of 1688, by Samuel Carpenter of York: inscribed tablet flanked by fronds, with winged base and shield with cherubs heads above, supporting life-sized bust in segmental niche and pilastered surround with garlands and broken segmental pediment carrying finial and carved lions.

Monuments in north transept: black marble floor slabs to Matthew Boynton of 1705 and Elizabeth Boynton of 1729 with carved arms in relief, marble wall tablet to Mathew Boynton of 1795 by I Fisher of York, with carved pedestal and urn on obelisk base.

Wall tablet in south aisle to children of Edward Russel of c1840 by W Bradley of Selby, with carved urn.