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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Hornby

North Yorkshire

Church. c1080, C12, C1330, C1410, late C15, C16, 1877.

Architectural Features

West tower: 4 stages, the lower 3 of c1080, the upper one late C15.

East end of south chapel: late C15.

Nave clerestory: late C15.

C16 double-chamfered, triangular- headed priest's door

two C12 windows with sill band and continuous hoodmould, both taken round central and right pilaster buttresses

North wall of chancel: C12 round-arched doorway with continuous roll and mason's marks of an arrow.

South wall of chancel: C12 windows have continuous roll.

3 small panels of contemporary stained glass, of c1330, in east window.

North wall of north aisle, from east: aumbry, trefoiled ogee-headed niche for statue, probably of St Cuthbert, the dedication of a chantry founded here in 1332

double- chamfered, pointed-arched recess containing two C14 effigies, of a knight and his lady, the knight in a crocketed canopy, probably members of the Mountford family

wall monument to Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holderness, d1778, by John Bacon of 1780, with a weeping cherub in bas-relief in circular panel, with an urn above.

South aisle, east end: trefoiled piscina and C12 oval font on circular stem.

South chapel: separated by C15 parclose screen with paired lights, Perpendicular tracery, and 5 original painted lower panels.

The chapel contains a remarkably fine collection of monuments: on the east wall, Lady Frances D'Arcy d1670, the inscription surrounded by swags, with the coat of arms above

on the south wall a large Renaissance monument to Elizabeth D'Arcy d1578, with a small sarcophagus framed by Doric columns and frieze with an eagle on a large ovolo cornice, and an upper tier with the coat of arms framed by Atlantes carrying a pediment.

On the floor: C13 grave cover with foliate cross and sword

C13 grave cover with pattie cross, stepped base, chalice and sword

parts of C13 grave cover with a fleury cross

C14 effigy of a lady

late C14 - early C15 alabaster effigies of a knight and his lady, possibly the builder of the south aisle, Sir John Conyers and his wife Margaret St Quintin.

Set in the floor: a black marble ledger stone with brasses of figures of Thomas Mountford d1489 and Agnes his wife, eight sons and seven daughters

a black marble ledger stone with matrices for brasses and inscription commemorating Christopher Conyers and Ellen his wife, d1443.

Lead-lined octagonal font with crocketed canopies on each side, hollow-chamfered stem and base with inscription that it was the gift of Mary, Countess of Holderness, 1783.

The contract survives for the building of the south aisle, dated 1409, between John Conyers of Hornby, and Richard Mason of Newton (le Willows).