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All Saints

All Saints

Kirby Hill

North Yorkshire

Probably C10 origins reusing earlier materials, C1170 and C13 with C15 alterations and restoration 1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Architectural Features

Stone slate roof to nave and probably chancel (not visible), grey slate roof to spire, red tiles to north aisle and chapel.

A stone with Roman inscription used as a quoin in lower south-west corner

A drainage pipe emerges from the mouth of what I presume is a fish (or perhaps a dolphin as it looks to have a flipper).

paired lancets to belfry stage, corbel table with gargoyle on west side

A drainage pipe emerges from the mouth of what I presume is a fish (or perhaps a dolphin as it looks to have a flipper).

© Diocese of Leeds

walling includes 6 worked stones, one of them Saxon

inner chamfered round-arched doorway, probably C12, within an earlier opening of which the eastern impost and 4 lowest voussoirs of an outer order are visible externally, partially renewed board door with possibly C12 C-shaped hinges with central strap and trident finials.

Chancel east window: C15, of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights under a 3-centred arch.

Substantial remains of C10 doorway and carved stones in south wall.

Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch of 1870 copying similar C13 original arch to north aisle from chancel.

Cylindrical font, probably Cll reworked C14, with C18 polygonal cover.

Fragments of Anglian and Danish carved stones in the tower.

Late C15 bench ends with poppy-heads, and 1870 replacements, the bequest of Lady Jean Warde of Givendale, 1473.

H M Taylor and Joan Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 1965, Vol I, p354-65.