St Helen

C16 north arcade

Tudor arched doorway beneath flat hoodmould has carved spandrels, colonnette jambs and double doors of traceried panelling.

INTERIOR: north arcade of double chamfered 2-centred arches, eastern arch 4-centred, on octagonal piers and responds: only easternmost pier has capital, a hollow chamfered C15 base reused.

Continuous hoodmould on C19 stops, except for two early C16 ones flanking eastern arch, one representing the seated figures of God the Father and Christ receiving a soul, the other St Michael and the Angels.

FITTINGS: include: C12 bowl font, arcaded beneath border of palmette mouldings, on C15 quatrefoil foot

C13 inverted capital base.

Mayoral Board with Royal Arms of George III, dated 1802.

STAINED GLASS: the church was the Glaziers' church, but medieval glass must have been lost when it was declared redundant and partly demolished in 1551.

Fragments of medieval and later glass have been reassembled in the chancel south window

MONUMENTS: include: north aisle: early C19 marble wall tablet to Theophilus Davyes Garencieres and family, by Taylor: wall monument to John Stow and family: floor slab to William and Rachel (d.18.) Brooke.

South aisle: marble tablet with cornice to Ann Acaster , by Flintoft: marble tablet with draped urn to Thomas Hartley of Heslington , by Taylor: Gothick wall monument to James Atkinson and his widow, Ann , by T Hayes of Beverley: inscribed brass plate in plain marble surround to Barbara and Elizabeth Davyes, 1667-1765 and 1669-1767 respectively, erected by their nephew Theophilus Davyes Garencieres: floor slabs to Tobias Conyars, Canon of York , and to Elizabeth, wife of Richard Acklam, , with shields of arms.