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St Mary

St Mary

Welwick

East Riding of Yorkshire

Late C13 tower arch, east section of nave, west section of chancel

Architectural Features

C14 clerestory, arcades, aisles, extension to chancel and door to porch

C15 rood screen, rebuilding of tower.

north side has pair of similar pointed 3-light windows and a C13 lancet

Porch: fine re-set pointed moulded arch with hoodmould and head stops supporting elaborate niche flanked by pinnacled buttress shafts, with foliate corbelled base supporting mutilated figures of seated virgin and child flanked by angels, beneath vaulted canopy with crocketed gables.

South aisle has blocked entrance to former parvis above south door, moulded corbels, including one carved head, to east wall, and pointed moulded trefoiled piscina with hoodmould and projecting moulded bowl, contemporary with adjoining wall monument Plain pointed piscina to nave with head corbel above.

Monuments.

Exceptional tomb of c1340 in south aisle, originally free-standing and re-set as wall tomb: grave slab with moulded front bearing carved symbols of the four evangelists

priest effigy in mass vestments on a bed of curvilinear tracery, beneath a crocketed ogee arch, with angels at head and feet, and others supporting corbelled shafts of lierne-vaulted canopy fronted by a low segmental arch enriched with curvilinear tracery and foliate carving, flanked by buttress shafts carrying mutilated statuettes of female saints in pinnacled niches

richly-carved display above subdivided by pinnacled buttresses into 5 panels, with curvilinear tracery, flying angels, foliate decoration and nodding crocketed ogee arches, the top left section missing.

South aisle also contains a mensa slab and broken C13 carved stone coffin, the latter exhumed from nave in 1832.

Floorslab in nave central aisle with Gothic Latin insciption to William and Margaret Sotteler of 1498

small C15-C16 floorslab with Gothic inscription to east end.

Brass in north aisle to William and Ann Wright of 1621, with effigies, inscribed plate and coat of arms

Octagonal panelled pulpit inscribed "1618".

C15 GT octagonal font with plain-moulded bowl and base, and tall pointed 8-sided wooden font cover with moulded base and ball finial.

Traces of wall painting to nave, including inscription to north, and robed figure to south.

Money was bequeathed for the chancel east window in 1358.

The south porch door and the tomb in the south aisle, probably from a chantry chapel and re-set after the suppression of chantries in the C16, are attributed to the same workshop as the Percy Shrine in Beverley Minster.

N Dawton "The Percy Tomb at Beverley Minster: The Style of the Sculpture", Studies in Medieval Sculpture, ed F H Thompson, 1983, pp 124- 125

N Dawton, "Report on the Monument in the south aisle of St Mary's Welwick", 1985, (duplicated typescript)