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St Andrew

St Andrew

Marrick

North Yorkshire

C13, nave rebuilt 1811, converted c1970.

Architectural Features

Several tombstones in paving of medieval, C17 and C18 dates.

Font, on Early English column base, has deeply-cusped stem and basin.

Jacobean altar table: panels from Jacobean pulpit incorporated in modern reading and prayer desks.

On south wall, memorial to Thomas Fawcett of Oxque, d. 1783, a celebrated cultivator of bees, and Francis Morley of Marrick Park, d. 1854.

On north wall, memorials to John Sherlock, d. 1809, and Mary Sherlock, d. 1814.

Fragments of medieval stained glass in tracery of east window.

Hatchment dated 1696.

Originally the church of the Priory of Benedictine nuns founded in the C12, the nave was originally the conventual church, and the choir the parish church: after the Dissolution the nave became the parish church.