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St James

St James

Melsonby

North Yorkshire

C13, restored 1870-72.

Architectural Features

Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, plain tile roofs.

C19 porch, gabled and with clasping buttresses has pointed-arched opening of 2 moulded and shafted orders, 2 lancet windows on each side and inner C12 doorway of 2 moulded, pointed- arched orders, shafted with worn volutes to capitals.

C13 mask corbels

In south aisle: mid C14 recess, with steep crocketed canopy with large apex finial and smaller side pinnacles, the cinquefoiled tracery with secondary trefoiled cusping, possibly an Easter Sepulchre, perhaps re-set.

In the tower, west window deeply splayed, and the sill reusing medieval tombstones with swords

several carved stones and monuments: on floor, C13 recumbent effigy of a knight with chain mail coif, sword and shield

Wall monuments commemorating the building of the vestry in 1811 by Rev Samuel Swire DD Rector, to a design by Rev James Griffith DD, Master of University College, Oxford