Church of St Patrick Patrington, England

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PATRINGTON HIGH STREET TA 3022-3122 (south side, off) 15/45 Church of St Patrick 16-12-66 GV I

Parish church. Largely first half of C14, with later C14 - early C15 spire and east window; incorporates reused C12-C13 masonry and north-west pier base. Restorations of 1866 and 1885. Vaulting to west aisle of south transept inserted in 1888, to nave south aisle in 1900, and to nave north aisle in 1902. Limestone ashlar. Lead roofs throughout, apart from flagstone roofs to porches, Lady Chapel and transept stair turrets. Cruciform plan: central tower, 4-bay aisled nave with north and south porches, 2-bay aisled transepts (that to south with canted bay to east Lady Chapel, that to north with north door), 4-bay chancel with sacristy adjoining to north. Stepped moulded plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays with offsets, gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles, (those to transepts also with trefoiled ogee niches beneath crocketed ogee hoodmoulds with head stops above first offset), moulded sill string course, coped parapets and gables throughout. Nave north and south aisles: pointed 3- light windows with flowing tracery, large pointed 5-light transomed west window with curvilinear tracery in moulded reveal with grotesques, flanked by buttresses and pointed 2-light aisle windows with curvilinear tracery in double-chamfered reveals. North porch: single-storey, gableted angle buttresses with crocketed coping supporting crocketed pinnacles, pointed roll-moulded arch of 2 orders with hoodmould and head stops beneath coped gable with cross finial; 3-bay roof with pointed wave-moulded ribs carried on stiff-leaf corbels; pointed inner arch of 2 filleted orders. South porch: 2 storeys, angle buttresses and pointed roll-moulded outer arch similar to north porch, small square-headed traceried 2-light window above; pointed inner arch of 2 filleted orders. Transepts: west stair turrets to north and south angles with slit lights and octagonal roofs; pointed 2-light east and west windows, those to north transept with partly-restored curvilinear tracery, those to south transept with reticulated and geometric tracery, all with moulded mullions in double-chamfered reveals. South transept: central canted east bay Lady Chapel has buttresses, pointed 2- light windows to each side with reticulated tracery, ornate roll-moulded mullions and reveals, beneath moulded string course and hipped roof; south side has pointed 2-light west aisle window with geometric tracery, pointed 3-light east aisle window with geometric tracery and filleted shafts with foliate capitals to reveal, and buttresses flanking large pointed 4-light transomed central window with geometric tracery, shafted mullions and filleted shafts with foliate capitals to reveal, beneath a pointed fillet- moulded arch, crow-stepped string course and parapet with traceried oculus to gable behind. North transept, north side: pointed 2-light aisle windows with moulded mullions and geometric tracery in double-chamfered reveals, buttresses flanking small central segmental-pointed door of 2 keeled orders with carved keystone bearing figure of Christ beneath crocketed ogee arch, in open gabled porch with filleted jambs and large carved lion and eagle corbels supporting stone roof with crenellated parapets and crocketed gable with restored finial; pointed 4-light transomed window above, with geometric tracery and filleted reveal, flanked by pair of head-corbel image brackets with moulded trefoiled canopies, beneath pointed fillet-moulded arch of 2 orders, crocketed gabled string course with carved finial, and parapet. Chancel: pointed 3-light windows with alternating reticulated and flowing tracery, filleted reveals and mullions, some restored; segmental pointed north door of 2 keeled orders with hoodmould and head stops; large pointed 7-light east window with filleted reveal, blind arcading of cinquefoiled arches below the transom with carved spandrels and shield bases to the mullions and P