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St Mary

St Mary

Old Town

East Riding of Yorkshire

C15, tower 1697.

Architectural Features

INTERIOR: nave and chancel have 3-bay arcades with triple moulded 4-centred arches with hoodmoulds and angel stops.

Piers have 4 shafts and 4 hollows, and capitals carved with animals and fish.

Chancel arcades and clerestorey windows are smaller, and the arcades have traceried Perpendicular style wooden screens similar to the rood screen, which like the hanging rood is by Temple Moore, 1912.

East end has a C19 stained-glass window and C19 Decorated style stone reredos with 7 cusped niches topped with pinnacles.

Tower west window has C19 stained glass.

Mid and late C19 stained-glass windows and Tudor arched north-west door.

West end has a respond, and east end an impost with an angel corbel.

East and west ends have stained-glass windows, 1856 and 1892.

Major south aisle has similar roof to minor south aisle and Tudor arched south-west doorway.

Mid C19 stained glass.

East end has a Gothic organ case c1905, and a Tudor arched door to the choir vestry.

Traceried panel enclosing clergy vestry incorporates some C16 carved panels.

Panelled walls and overmantel with fitted cupboards, incorporating parts of the C18 pulpit.

FITTINGS include C19 stalls and benches, altar with triptych, traceried oak pulpit and Decorated style font.

MEMORIALS include a small brass, 1525, to John Harrison,

incised slabs, 1629 and 1683.

Alabaster bust to William Dobson, 1666, with pedimented surround, cherub supporters, Latin inscription and apron with skulls.