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the Holy Trinity and Churchyard Wall

The Holy Trinity And Churchyard Wall

Old Town

East Riding of Yorkshire

Mainly 1300-1425.

Architectural Features

Transepts 1300-1320, chancel 1320-1360, nave 1389-1418, tower c1500.

2 traceried Perpendicular triple lancets with Tudor arched heads and ogee hoodmoulds with finials.

Above it, traceried parapet with central figure niche topped with a pinnacle.

On either side, 3 cusped canopied figure niches.

Interior has low pitched roof with moulded ridge and rafters, and restored moulded doorway with hoodmould and angel stops.

3 memorial tablets, late C17 and late C18.

To right, under the fifth aisle window, a segment-headed double doorway, now glazed, to the former Alcock Chantry, late C15.

Ambulatory in eastern bay has memorial window, c1920, by Clayton & Bell.

Below it, a wooden war memorial, c1920, in the form of a reredos with canopied central niche.

East end has stone reredos, 1886, in C15 style, with crested canopy to central triple niche, and flanking stone screens, with similar screens in the east bays of the arcade.

South aisle has stained-glass east window, c1920, and south side windows 1951, 1918 and 1880.

Under the east window, a panelled wooden war memorial.

South side has to east, a window opening with piscina below, from the former Eland Chantry, 1542.

To west, two C19 doors with Tudor and pointed arches.

To west again, cusped ogee headed tomb recess with traceried crest and pinnacles, and 2 life-size alabaster effigies to Sir William De La Pole, 1366, and Lady Katharine, 1381.

North aisle has stained-glass east window c1860.

South arch has the C15 chancel screen, now glazed, restored 1846 and resited 1900.

North arch has a 3-tower organ case, c1876, resited 1908, with a Tudor arch to the passage below it.

Eastern arches have traceried C15 screens.

South transept has central doorway flanked by single C20 stained-glass windows, and main south window with stained glass, 1892.

Above, stained-glass window, 1907.

West side has a stained-glass window, 1924.

East end has a 3-light memorial window, c1920, flanked to left by a canopied vaulted niche with a figure.

South side has to east a cusped and crocketed piscina and 2 memorial windows c1920.

Small foliate capitals and moulded arches with hoodmoulds and angel tops.

West end has C19 stained-glass window with crenellated sill band, and segmental arched inner porch with draught screen topped by the Royal arms.

South aisle has near-central doorway to south porch and above it, stained-glass window, 1952, by HJ Stammers.

To left again, 2 stained-glass windows, 1897 and c1907, by Walter Crane.

FITTINGS include C14 octagonal font with concave sided crocketed gables and figure carving, and buttressed minor shafts.

Marble topped carved communion table and relief carved wooden reredos, c1770.

Octagonal stone pulpit with gabled niches in Decorated style, and curved stone stair and balustrade, 1846, by HF Lockwood.

Huge brass eagle lectern with richly decorated platform and steps, 1847, by George Parker.

Late C19 choir stalls incorporate C14

C15 bench ends, some of them carved.

MEMORIALS include resited effigy, c1380, to Eleanor Box, and brass with half-length figures, 1451, to Richard and Margaret Byll.

Bust in pedimented surround with columns, 1624, to Thomas Whincop.

Tablet with cartouche and seated female figure, 1772, to Nathaniel Maister.

Freestanding monument with bust and an angel assisting a man, to Thomas Ferres, 1859

arch topped monument with angel and 2 children, 1860, to J W Grey