All Saints' church - North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire
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N 53° 43.154 W 000° 30.171
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All Saints is the Anglican Parish Church for North Ferriby in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Waymark Code: WM11ZPA
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/17/2020
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All Saints is the Anglican Parish Church for North Ferriby in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
"This is an early work by John Loughborough Pearson (1817-97), constructed in 1846-8 at a cost of £3,039. “The building is largely constructed of local brown sandstone [though it stands above chalk]. The walls are made up of stones of irregular shape and size at uneven height intervals… and are reinforced by Mexborough stone dressings…” The church guide (4th edition, by D. Bulmer) goes on to describe the style as “Middle Pointed or Decorated” though it is more accurately represented as the geometrical style of the Early English/Decorated transition.
The church was paid for by public subscription and a substantial donation from Ann Turner of Ferriby House (ibid.). The patrons should have been well satisfied with their commission, for besides an aisled nave with N. & S. porches and a short chancel with a N. vestry, Pearson provided a W. tower with a broach spire, which has the distinction of being Pearson’s first steeple. The spire has a tier of lucarnes in the cardinal directions and an exaggerated entasis which has the effect of making it appear slightly bloated, but the church is certainly impressive as one approaches from the north. The aisle windows are two-light with trefoils, quatrefoils, cinquefoils or sexfoils in the heads. The chancel E. window is five-light, with lights 1, 3 & 5 lancet-pointed above trefoils, lights 2 & 4 two-centred beneath large encircled cinquefoils, and an encircled sexfoil in the apex. The aisle E. windows are three-light with encircled quatrefoils above lights 1 & 3 and wheels containing three trefoils and three trilobes in the heads. The tower is angle-buttressed and rises in two stages to bell-openings formed of pairs of lancet lights beneath quatrefoils in circles. There is no W. doorway but the W. window is three-light with trilobes above the lights and two encircled cinquefoils and one encircled quatrefoil in the head. Rather curiously, the most elaborate external feature is probably the priest’s doorway in the chancel S. wall (the side away from the road), which is approached up three steps and given additional prominence by a more than usually complex moulded profile and a gable above with a blank trefoil in the apex."
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