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All Saints

All Saints

Pickhill

North Yorkshire

C12, C13, C14, C15 and late C19 restoration by G E Street.

Architectural Features

3-stage tower, late C15, with offset diagonal buttresses and wide angle buttress to east of south front which forms stair tower with 3 slit openings

Nave: C13, 3 bays.

Gabled wooden late C19 south porch masks inner board door which has a Norman doorway with 2 orders of shafts carrying scalloped capitals and zigzags in the arch.

North aisle has C19 one-light windows apart from the one to west which is C13 of 2- lights with plate tracery.

Chancel: C13, two bays with plinth and offset diagonal buttresses to east end.

Interior: north arcade: early C13, 3 bays, having quatrefoil piers with octagonal abaci and double-chamfered arches.

Chancel arch: Norman with nook-shafts, scalloped capitals, cross along the imposts and zigzag work in the arch.

Effigy of a knight in chancel late C13, probably Sir Andrew Nevill of Pickhill.

The font is inscribed 1662, although British History Online suggests the upper part dates from 1686 while the lower half appears to be of 13th-century date.

Font: 1662, octagonal with initials and simple geometric patterns.

The font is inscribed 1662, although British History Online suggests the upper part dates from 1686 while the lower half appears to be of 13th-century date.

© David Rogers

1 small fragment with a human figure and part of a hogback tombstone with bear.