Church of St Mary Virgin Hornby, England

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NORTH YORKSHIRE RICHMONDSHIRE 5339

SE 2293-2393 HORNBY HORNBY

9/32 Church of St Mary the Virgin 13.2.67

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Church. c1080, C12, c1330, c1410, late C15, C16, 1877. Work of c1410 by Richard Mason of Newton for John Conyers of Hornby; 1877 work by J L Pearson for Fanny Georgiana, Duchess of Leeds. Rubble with ashlar dressings, lead roofs. West tower, nave with north and south aisles and south porch, chancel with north vestry and organ chamber and south chapel. West tower: 4 stages, the lower 3 of c1080, the upper one late C15. Round-arched windows to first and second stages, with clock on second stage; original belfry opening on third stage of 2 lights, divided by a recessed baluster with cushion capital, with round-arched lintels; double-chamfered 2-light belfry opening on fourth stage with mullion and transom, trefoiled segmental- pointed heads to lights and round-headed tracery above; C19 crenellated parapets supported on corbels; corner pinnacles recently removed. West side of tower has plinth, corner pilaster buttresses and doorway with slab lintel below round arch; north side of tower has round-arched light vent on first stage. Gabled porch, C19. South aisle: c1410; doorway with double- chamfered pointed arch with hoodmould; two 2-light pointed-arched windows with tall Perpendicular tracery, flanking a shallow stepped buttress; blocked C19 three-light window flanked by deep stepped buttresses to south chapel; parapet with triangular corner finials; triple-chamfered, flat- headed, trefoiled single-light west window. East end of south chapel: late C15. 3-light pointed-arched window with tall Perpendicular tracery, and deep stepped buttress to left. Nave clerestory: late C15. 3 flat-headed windows with trefoil-headed lights; 2 of 2 lights, 1 of 3 lights; parapet with eastern gable cross. North aisle, c1330, with, from left: angle buttress; 3 double-chamfered 2-light trefoiled windows with tomb projection between first and second, and with blocked double-chamfered doorway between second and third; angle buttress. Double-chamfered trefoiled 3-light east window with intersecting tracery; C19 three-light west window. Chancel: ashlar. C12. Moulded and rolled plinth. C16 double-chamfered, triangular- headed priest's door; two C12 windows with sill band and continuous hoodmould, both taken round central and right pilaster buttresses; corbel table; coping with gable cross to right. At the east end of the chancel, three C19 Romanesque-style windows, with wheel window above. C19 gabled north vestry has weathered cinquefoiled doorway and window of 3 cinquefoiled lights, both with hoodmoulds, and heating chamber below with 3-light mullion window. C19 gabled organ chamber with 3-light window with plate tracery and hoodmould. Interior: 3-bay north arcade of c1180: quatrefoil columns with delicate waterleaf capitals; arches of 2 orders, but each one different including chevron, zigzag and beading motifs. 3-bay south arcade of c1410: octagonal piers on hollow-chamfered bases, chamfered capitals; double- chamfered arches of 2 orders, the inner one hollow-chamfered. C19 chancel arch in Romanesque style. Tower arch: c1180, tall, narrow, semicircular arch with imposts. North wall of chancel: C12 round-arched doorway with continuous roll and mason's marks of an arrow. East wall of chancel: cavity perhaps for relics. South wall of chancel: C12 windows have continuous roll. East wall of north aisle: trefoiled piscina; 3 small panels of contemporary stained glass, of c1330, in east window. North wall of north aisle, from east: aumbry, trefoiled ogee-headed niche for statue, probably of St Cuthbert, the dedication of a chantry founded here in 1332; double- chamfered, pointed-arched recess containing two C14 effigies, of a knight and his lady, the knight in a crocketed canopy, probably members of the Mountford family; wall monument to Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holderness, d1778, by John Bacon of 1780, with a w