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All Saints

All Saints

Harewood

West Yorkshire

HAREWOOD CHURCH LANE SE3145/3144 LS14 (south side, off) Harewood Park 14/63 Church of All Saints 30.3.66 I GV Parish church (redundant),C15 restored 1793 and 1862-3 by Sir G. G. Scott.

Architectural Features

West front: low squat tower embraced by aisles with lean-to roofs has pointed-arched doorway of 3 orders with hoodmould and carved-face stops with above 5-light west window with panel tracery.

3-light windows with cusped lights and panel tracery, hoodmoulds with medieval carved-face stops.

The glory of the church are the set of medieval alabaster monuments restored 1979-81: 6 recumbent couples on tomb chests.

One of the figures is Sir William Gascoigne, Lord Chief Justice, in judge's robes c1419.

They remain the largest collection of alabaster monuments in a parish church within the dates 1419-1510.

Fine wall monument to Sir Thomas Denison c1765 by N. Hedges (London).

Furnishings: Norman font has shallow bowl and rope-moulded foot set on later base.

C19 octagonal pulpit, high Victorian Gothic with shafted marble columns and finely- carved stone panels.

Altar rail and gates memorial to King George V by H.R.H. Princess Royal in which is incorporated 4 insignia, the Orders of the British Empire

P. Routh and R. Knowles, The Medieval Monuments of Harewood,