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St Denys

St Denys

Fishergate

North Yorkshire

C14 north aisle

Architectural Features

C15 chancel

south aisle, with reset mid C12 door

MATERIALS: magnesian limestone with tile and pantile roofs in three parallel spans with stone coped gables.

Doorway is round-arched, of five orders with moulded imposts and cushion capitals carved with volutes, grotesque masks and scallops: orders carved with foliage, beakhead, chevrons, medallions of leaves and flowers and lozenges enclosing quatrefoil flowers.

Octagonal pulpit of bordered panels reset on C19 pedestal and with C19 handrail.

Cast-iron Victorian hatchment on wood panel on north aisle west wall.

MONUMENTS: include: chancel north wall: kneeling figure of Dorothy Hughes in round-arched niche surrounded by heraldry and symbolic carvings.

Chancel south wall: obelisk with tablet and female figure and urn, to Robert Welborn Hotham and family, c1806, by Fisher.

STAINED GLASS: although fragmented, a considerable quantity of C13, C14

C15 stained glass survives in the church.

South aisle has four reset C12 grotesque corbels carrying renewed arch-braced trusses.