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St Martin

St Martin

Seamer

North Yorkshire

Early C12 nave, chancel and tower lower stages

Architectural Features

chancel extended in C15

C15 north aisle, chantry, vestry and south porch

Tower: 3 stages, with battlements over a corbel table, incorporates C12 angle buttresses.

C12 or C13 iron-studded oak door with strap and C-hinges, and later reinforcement.

Two single-stepped clerestory windows survive on either side of porch, with 3-light replacement windows to right, one C14 with Decorated tracery, the other C19 with intersecting tracery.

Chancel: C15 2-light window with flat hood mould, and inserted C19 window with intersecting tracery.

Interior: C12 round chancel arch of three orders with scalloped capitals and a form of beakhead and roll moulding to the arch.

C12 deeply-splayed clerestory windows with roll-moulded heads survive above the arcade.

Nave clerestory and string course below altered by C15 insertion of 4-bay arcade of double-chamfered round arches on shafted piers.

C15 vestry has pointed tunnel-vaulted roof, 2-light east window and corner fireplace.

C12 reset corbels carved as caryatid heads to left and right of altar.

A sanctus bell dated 1448, presented by Lady Percy in 1550, is preserved in the vestry.

In a north window, fragments of C15 glass depicting two heads.

Monuments: a C16 brass to Lucy, wife of Sir Henry Gate, in the chantry.

Wall monument in chancel to Elizabeth Woodall, d1801, by Chambers of Scarborough.