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St Cuthbert

St Cuthbert

Layerthorpe

North Yorkshire

YORK SE6052SE PEASHOLME GREEN 1112-1/14/864 (North West side) 14/06/54 Church of St Cuthbert (Formerly Listed as: PEASHOLME GREEN St Cuthbert (Church Offices)) I Parish Church, now offices of Church of St Michael-le-Belfrey, Minster Yard (qv).

Architectural Features

Mid C15 incorporating late C11 east wall

roofs of tile and stone slate with moulded stone coping.

EXTERIOR: east end: roughly buttressed C11 wall has blocked doorway beneath crudely shaped lintel and segmental relieving arch.

Towards east end, priest's door of two cinquefoiled panels in 4-centred head with oak and vine carved spandrels carved in chamfered surround beneath coved hoodmould.

Four windows of three cinquefoiled lights in square-headed hollow-chamfered surrounds beneath hoodmoulds, separated by 3-stage buttresses surmounted by decayed gargoyles.

Moulded strings to belfry and beneath embattled parapet, with defaced gargoyles to both.

FITTINGS: include: hexagonal pulpit with arcaded panels carved with foliage

Three lozenge hatchments.

MONUMENTS: include: west wall: Richard Lund, wife Sarah, and other members of family, died between 1813 and 1826, by Bennet Snr. of York.

Crypt: early C17 slab with brasses to members of Hungate family.