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St Helen

St Helen

Stillingfleet

North Yorkshire

Church. c.1145 nave, south porch

Architectural Features

chancel, C13 north aisle

chapel of Saint Anne and lower stage to west tower, C14 additions

alterations including Moreby Chapel dedicated to Saint Mary , C15

C16 additions to tower and widening and heightening of north aisle and insertion of windows.

Magnesian limestone ashlar with red plain tile roof.

Hoodmould and gable with dragon gargoyle to right.

C12 plank door with C13 modifications has strap hinges and C hinges with dragon's heads

Viking longboats, pair of figures and other ornamental motifs.

Re-set C12 round-arched priest's doorway has chevron moulding with raspberries to architrave under hoodmould with dogtooth.

South side: 2-bay arcade has double-chamfered, pointed arches on octagonal pier and with octagonal responds with C14 foliage and grotesque capitals.

Between, a probably early-mid C17 screen with decorated panelling surmounted by bulb-on-vase balusters.

To Moreby Chapel, further panelling with strapwork frieze and probably later C17 panelled partition with strapwork frieze.

Chapel contains effigy of cross-legged Knight, Sir Robert Moreby, reputedly c.1337.

Marble wall monument to John Accolm with 4 kneeling figures facing one another, pair-wise in architectural setting.

Chapel of Saint Anne: probably mid-late C17 panelling with seats attached and heavily-moulded, deeply-carved naturalistic frieze, incorporating probable remains of Jacobean overmantle.

Remains of Norman carving used in window surrounds.

Fragments of medieval stained glass, otherwise C19 and C20 glass.