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All Saints

All Saints

Bishophill

North Yorkshire

C14 arcades and south wall, refaced in C19

Architectural Features

mid C15 clerestory

remodelling by Fisher and Hepper, carving by GC Milburn.

EXTERIOR: east end of chancel and transepts flanked by offset buttresses with gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles.

Towards west end of north side, C18 panelled door with 2-centred head and C12 closing ring in form of a dragon swallowing a human figure.

Clerestory bays on both sides articulated by pilaster buttresses with gargoyles, originally surmounted by crocketed pinnacles: one remains on south side.

Lantern is buttressed with crocketed pinnacles and gargoyles between tiered lights of twin cinquefoiled openings with panel tracery in 2-centred head.

Nave arcades have a continuous hoodmould, former transept arches hoodmoulds on C19 carved headstops.

C12 masonry survives over east window arch and tower arch.

C15 nave and chancel roof panelled with moulded ribs, with carved and painted bosses at intersections.

FITTINGS: include: hexagonal pulpit on tapered pedestal with cusped panel sides between multi-tiered colonnettes ornamented with jewel carvings and grotesques

sounding board capped by voluted panels carved with winged cherub heads

both inscribed with texts, sounding board dated 1634.

Oak lectern on square pedestal, buttressed between crocketed canopied niches housing late C19 carvings of the Evangelists (from St Crux).

Three Mayoral Boards: one painted with cyphers for W3R, 1696, and G2R, 1736, and incorporating mace bracket

two others from St Crux, one with W&M cypher, the other painted with Royal Arms and City of York Arms together with W&M cypher.

Two hatchments, one at west end in fluted frame with rosette paterae probably George III

the other over vestry door from St Crux, d. 1688.

MONUMENTS AND BRASSES: include: north aisle: coped grave cover with interlace carving and dragons at each corner

brass to Robert Crathorn, Kt., d. 1482

framed brass to Robert Askwith, d. 1579, from St Crux

inscription plate to Roger de Moreton, d. 1382,

Isabella his wife, d. 1412, from St Saviour's.

Glass: west window contains C14 glass removed from St Saviour's church: other glass C19, by Kempe.