All Saints' Church, Burythorpe Explained

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Burythorpe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The church sits on top of a hill, west of the village, with views in all directions.[1] [2] The first church on the site was Mediaeval, described in 1848 as "an ancient edifice with substantial buttresses".[3] It was demolished in the 1850s and replaced by a new building, designed by John Bownas and William Atkinson. The building was Grade II listed in 1966.

The church is built of limestone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in the Gothic Revival style. It consists of a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a single-bay chancel with a north vestry. The west front has angle buttresses, and a central buttress carrying a gabled bellcote, flanked by trefoil-headed lancet windows. The porch has a pointed arch with a moulded surround. In the nave are paired lancet windows, and at the east end are stepped lancets with a cinquefoil above. Inside the church is a 12th-century tub font and two marble wall tablets from the 1850s. The east window, contemporary with the church, was designed by Alexander Gibbs.

See also

References

  1. Book: Nikolaus Pevsner

    . Pevsner . Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner. Neave. David. The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. 2. . 1995. 1972. New Haven and London . 978-0-300-09593-7 .

  2. Web site: All Saints . National Churches Trust . 9 May 2024.
  3. Book: Lewis . S. . A Topographical Dictionary of England . 1848 . London . 9 May 2024.

54.0753°N -0.7957°W