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All Saints

All Saints

Burstwick

East Riding of Yorkshire

C13 nave, early C14 south chapel, mid C15 tower incorporating mid C13 west window, C15 chancel, north aisle and north chapel.

Architectural Features

trefoiled ogee-headed niche above with crocketed hood, carved corbel of angel holding shield, and flanking pinnacled buttress shafts.

moulded string course, coped embattled parapet with bases of former angle pinnacles, and carved head corbels to each side supporting shafts for former central pinnacles.

South chapel: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with offsets and crocketed gablets with finials: pointed 3-light south window (perhaps C13 reset) with partly-restored geometric tracery, double-chamfered reveal, moulded mullions and hoodmould with head stops

Pointed double-chamfered arch to south chapel with hoodmould and carved animal head stops, filleted shafted responds with plain moulded capitals and bases

C19 roofs throughout, that to chancel with wall shafts carried on ornate carved stone corbels.

Floorslab alongside to Stephen Hatfield, Lord of Holderness, and his wife Elizabeth, with arms and indents for brasses.

C12 cylindrical tub font with plain moulding to underside, cylindrical shaft, plain moulded base and circular stepped pedestal.

C19 benches, pulpit.

Unusual C17 Royal Arms hanging in north aisle with painting on reverse of beheading of Charles I and Latin verses condemming the wickedness of rebellion and regicide, made by vicar John Catlyn in 1676.

Fragments of C15 glass from north aisle windows incorporated in chancel window surrounds.

H K Morris, The Church of All Saints, Burstwick, 1228-1978, 1978, 20pp.