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Saint James

Saint James

Burnby

East Riding of Yorkshire

C12 nave, early C13 chancel, restored 1873 by George Gilbert Scott , west tower and south porch by Temple Moore c1902.

Architectural Features

Ashlar, plain tile roofs.

C12 round-headed north door with hollow-chamfered imposts, narrow chamfer, and hoodmould with face-stops

small round-headed window to east with continuous roll-moulding and head carved with centipetal arrows.

Interior: C12 chancel arch reused as tower arch: attached shafts with scallop capitals, some with volutes, some with masks and trails, supporting quirk-and-chamfer imposts and round arch of two orders, the inner with a double roll moulding to the soffit, the outer with chevron ornament.

Hoodmould with naked human figure and masks.

Under the tower a cross-shaft of c1000 AD consisting of two fragments fitted together: four sides with two panels to each side carved with a variety of figures both in profile and frontally presented, together with a number of foliage designs, pelta-like shapes, and beasts.

C12 font, probably re-tooled, in shape of cushion capital.

The lower half of a set of sedilia, truncated by an early C14 window, also survives in the south wall.