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St Edmund King and Martyr

St Edmund King And Martyr

Marske

North Yorkshire

C12, C17 and early C19.

Architectural Features

C17 and C19 work for the Hutton family.

Chamfered Tudor arch with hoodmould, Hutton coat of arms above, stepped crenellated parapet.

early C19 panelled door with wrought-iron latch within C12 round- arched doorway of 2 slightly-chamfered orders, the inner one shafted and with scalloped capitals, hoodmould.

two 2-light windows of 1683, both with segmental-arched heads to lights and a circle above in plate tracery, the central mullions fluted, and with moulded labels resting on cornice capitals, that to west has date 1683 inscribed on plate tracery and dogtooth motif to heads of lights, that to east has inscription "IOHN HUTTON SQVIR", and sundial above

Tile west gable rises higher than the present nave roof, with ashlar coping and bellcote: on its eastside is'"the scar of steeply-pitched roof.

in centre, 2-panel priest's door in chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould, flanked by Tudor-arched windows of 2 trefoiled lights with hoodmoulds

Tudor-arched east window of 3 trefoiled lights, with hoodmould.

North chancel aisle: C13

C13 chamfered semicircular chancel arch on responds which have been extended downwards as half-section C17 balusters.

In the north wall, a stop- chamfered 4-centred-arched tomb recess, and standing in it the reticulated tracery of a pointed-arched window, all carved out of one piece of stone.

The inscription is a palindrome attributed to Leo the Philosopher, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c.795-870 AD).
It translates:
'WASH MY SINS AND NOT MY FACE ONLY'

Font: inverted pyramidal octagonal basin, with dogtooth motif on edges, with crude carving on 4 panels and inscriptions "T H" and "1633", commemorating M Timothy Hutton, a merchant of Leeds, who married Margaret Bennet.

The inscription is a palindrome attributed to Leo the Philosopher, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c.795-870 AD). It translates: 'WASH MY SINS AND NOT MY FACE ONLY'

© Russel Wills

Most of the fittings date from 1830, when John Hutton restored the fabric, and are of stained pitchpine, including box pews, Hutton family pew in chancel, and pulpit with reading desk.

The altar table and rail, which has square-section balusters, are of late C17 - early C18 date.

Monuments: in chancel floor, C18 slab to a John Hutton, and on north side of chancel, John Hutton of Marske esq d1841, by T Smith, London with portrait bust above a long inscription commemorating his term as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1825 and his attributes as a generous patron of learned and scientific societies, a liberal and improving landlord, a political reformist and a hospitable host

In the top light of more westerly C17 nave window, roundel of painted glass of a male Hutton and his wife.