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St Andrew

St Andrew

Grinton

North Yorkshire

C12, C15, C16, restored 1896 by Searle Hicks of Newcastle-upon- Tyne.

Architectural Features

Chancel of 2 bays: C15 Perpendicular 5-light east window and 2-light south window, both with 5-cusped tracery

C16 Perpendicular 3-light north window with semi-circular heads, no tracery.

C16 3-light north window to north chancel aisle

Nave of 4 bays divided by stepped buttresses: to south, 2 C16 2-light windows, south doorway with continuous roll mouldings and heads on label stops, south porch with apex cross and stone benches, south- west window of 3 lancets

C16 clerestory windows, battlemented parapets, sundial dated 1833.

To north, C15

C16 Perpendicular 3-light windows.

North aisle has west door and C16 5-light window.

hatchment to Dorothy Darcy d. 1698

Chantry chapel with 2 light vents and rubble barrel-vaulted roof, is separated from north chancel aisle by late medieval woodwork.

North chancel aisle, the chapel of the Swale family of Swale Hall: late medieval screen with single-light divisions, round-headed lights with 5 cusps, cusping

royal coat of arms 1693

stained glass coat of arms of Swale family in east window.

South chancel aisle, the chapel of the Blackburn family of Blackburn Hall: medieval screen with single-light divisions, ogee tracery with 3 cusps, cresting

floor slab to Elizabeth Blackburn d. 1687/8

fragments of C15 stained glass in east window, said to represent St George, also in black-letters 'Maria Bredlingtone', referring to links with Bridlington Priory. 'Leper squint' at junction of chancel and nave.

Chancel arch has C12 respond to north, steps

door to rood screen, C14 arch above.

Nave: late Jacobean pulpit, sounding board dated 1718

floor slabs including Elizabeth Hutchinson d. 1697/8, William Mortimer d. 1707

wall memorial to Anthony Close d. 1786

circular Norman font with chevron design, fine Perpendicular cover.

Tower arch Early English, shafts missing, C12 window above.

North aisle: wall monument to Thomas Peacock d. 1710 and family, by Davies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

floor slabs to Mary Birkbeck d. 1812, Adam Barker d. 1701, Ann Barker d. 1692.

South aisle: Decorated piscina with broken basin, Jacobean screen perhaps part of squire's pew, wooden wall memorial to Edward Elliott d. 1795, floor slabs to Margaret Charder d. 1728, Rev. John Taylor, no date.