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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

Stonegrave

North Yorkshire

Nave of Saxon origins, early C12 tower, mid C12 arcade, C15 upper stage to tower, and substantial restoration and rebuilding of external walls and chancel, 1863, by G. Fowler Jones.

Architectural Features

C15 2-light window in place of blocked round-headed west doorway.

Later Norman, more massive arcade to south with scalloped and foliate capitals.

Monuments include in north aisle effigy of a civilian of early C14, legs crossed, hands in prayer,

two effigies, in low tomb recess with canopy, to Robert Thornton, died 1418, and his wife, both with hands in prayer and wearing pleated gowns.

In the chancel are 2 brass memorials to members of the Comber family, of late C17 / early C18, and an inscribed slab in the floor in memory of Thomas Comber, Rector of Stonegrave and Dean of Durham, died 1699.

Over the priest's door hangs a painted memorial to William Thornton, died 1668, unusual in that it is painted on canvas, not wood.

Taylor H. M. "Anglo-Saxon Architecture" 1965.