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The interior of the church presents a very dapper appearance, having been entirely renewed and embellished in a style which is more than questionable in taste, and it is greatly to be regretted that the sums of money expended were not better applied. There are four pointed arches on each side dividing the aisles, set in pairs, the central pier on each side being very large; at each end of it are clustered shafts with capitals of stiff Early English foliage, and an elliptical arch carried across from one pier to the opposite. The other piers are smaller and lighter, of clustered shafts, but the whole has been so altered and renewed that it is probable very little of the original work is yet extant. Attached to one of the pillars on the north is a kind of octagonal stone slab or table with the cable ornament, and supported on a shaft with a square base. The arch to the chancel is elliptical, and has probably been altered. But the most glaring innovation is the wretched gaudy arrangement of the interior of the chancel, of which the ancient apsidal form is completely obliterated and an Italian dome raised upon it supported by three round arches in a circle, and lighted by yellow tinted glass! Two other windows are filled with blue and yellow glass, those of the apse hidden by a large painting executed and presented by the late Mr. Jackson, a native of this parish, to do honour to which this grotesque and unworthy modern contrivance has been resorted to, doubly to be regretted in such a curious and venerable fabric. The windows of the apse have shafts with rude capitals. In the apse is a plain trefoil niche with piscina. It is vain to describe further the arrangement of the interior, as most of the arches and pillars seem to be modern. The pews are regular and neat, and there are two fine carved chairs within the altar rails. There are also some modern monuments which tend further to deform the east end and block up windows. The font is circular with mouldings round the base, upon a cylindrical shaft. On a flat stone is a cross inscribed H. H. E. The situation of the church on a slope is very good.

ST. PETER, PICKERING.

This is a fine and spacious church, consisting of a western tower crowned by a good stone spire, a nave with side aisles,

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transepts and a large chancel. There are features of every style. The two lower stages of the tower appear to be of Early English origin, with flat buttresses and string course dividing them, and near the N.W. angle a large projection for staircase. On the north side are two tiers of plain lancets. The west window is decorated, as are the belfry windows. There are several shields with armorial bearings on the west side of the upper stage of the tower. The battlement is pierced with small apertures in form of an elongated quatrefoil, which are rather more of castellated than ecclesiastical character, but not uncommon in the churches of this neighbourhood. Beneath the battlement is a wavy cornice with foils, under which is a corbel table with flowers and beads. The spire is of good height, but without any bands, and together with the belfry story appears to be decorated. The walls are entirely of excellent stone. south side is generally embattled (and all the chancel), but not the north aisle or transept. There is a south porch which has shields in the battlement, and an outer doorway with good arch mouldings, but the shafts gone. A north doorway is small, but has shafts and mouldings which seem to be decorated. The roofs are of lead. On the south side of the chancel is a chapel, not now opening to it, of Perpendicular character, and with a parvise or room above. There are good gurgoyles to the clerestory; the buttresses have triangular heads. The windows are mostly decorated, but much varied; those in the aisles of three lights and good, that in the north transept resembling the west window of the tower and less good. The south transept has one of three trefoil lancets within a general arch, which is transition from Early English. The clerestory windows are Perpendicular and square-headed. West of the south aisle is one single lancet trefoil. The interior is grand and imposing; the nave very wide, and divided from each aisle by four semicircular arches, of which those on the north are very plain, and the pillars circular with square capitals and bases. The southern arches are moulded; the piers are square, with a shaft attached to each side having the square abacus, and rude foliage in the capital. The western arch on the south side springs from a half octagonal pillar. The transepts open to the body by pointed arches rather straight-sided, that on the north upon a circular half-column with capital

having the square abacus and sculpture representing angels and animals, somewhat grotesque. That on the south is upon clustered shafts. The clerestory is continued equally above the transept arches. The chancel is large, and left almost entirely open, which produces a fine effect. On each side are two windows of three lights with early Decorated tracery having no foils. The east window is of five lights of Decorated character with rather straight-sided arch. On the south side of the chancel are three fine decorated sedilia, the arches upon octagonal shafts with capitals exhibiting sculpture of figures of animals, but much clogged with whitewash. These are crowned with triangular canopies having beautiful crockets of finials upon head corbels; eastward of the sedilia is a niche with piscina, having a similar canopy set between pinnacles. The sedilia are set farther to the west than is usual, in a line with the steps leading to the altar but quite without the present rails, though they enclose a large space. On the north side of the altar is a square recess or locker in the wall. In the north aisle is a stone seat along the whole, beneath the windows. The tower opens to the nave by a good decorated arch upon shafts with moulded capitals. The font is circular, with moulding round the base, and set on a cylinder of equal diameter. In the north aisle is the effigy of a cross-legged knight in chain armour, bearing a shield on which is a saltier engrailed; at his head are angels, at his feet a dog. There is also another effigy in chain armour much mutilated within the altar rails. The church is tolerably neat, though the pews are as usual too high. There is a fair organ in a western gallery.

The ruins of the castle of Pickering appear to be of Perpendicular architecture, and parts of the walls exhibit good masonry.

ALL SAINTS, KIRBY MOORSIDE.

This church consists of a nave with side aisles, a chancel, and a modern tower at the west end. The whole is embattled except the north side of the chancel. There is a large south porch with solid vault of stone and small plain windows. The chancel has some decorated windows of two lights on the south; those on the north are stopped up. In

the aisles the windows are square-headed, some with, some without, labels and of mixed decorated and Perpendicular character; those of the clerestory late Perpendicular. The nave is divided from each aisle by three pointed arches, which appear Early English, the pillars alternately circular and octagonal. The nave has a flat panelled ceiling. The chancel arch is plain and rude. On the south side of the chancel are two sedilia of decorated character and rather singular, the two set in a square compartment, having trefoil heads, and above a crocketed triangular canopy, and flanked by small pinnacles. In the east wall is an odd shaped recess with moulded sides. In the chancel wall is the sepulchral brass of Lady Brooke, representing her with six sons and five daughters all praying, and this inscription: "Here lyeth the body of my Lady Brooke, who while she lyved, was a good woman, a very good mother, and exceeding good wife, her soule is at rest with God for she was sure that her Redeemer lyved, and that though worms destroyed her bodye, yet in her fleshe she should see God. She dyed the 12th of July, 1600." There is a large gallery at the west end containing an organ. A stove is ridiculously set upon a kind of arch bestriding the nave. The church is neat, but the usual evil of large pews prevails.

ST. NICHOLAS, NORTH GRIMSTON.

This church consists of a nave and chancel only, with a very plain Early English tower at the west end. The body displays a mixture of Norman and Early English. On the north side of both nave and chancel is an early corbel table beneath the parapet of excellent workmanship. There are some trefoil lancets on the same side and one on the south side. There is a small one on the north near the pulpit. Some other windows are Perpendicular, and the south side has been extremely modernized. The south porch has the outer door with semicircular arch finely moulded but with Early English features, especially the toothed dripstones and the shafts. The inner door has a semicircular arch upon imposts. The tower is low, with a plain parapet and flat buttresses. There is a lancet west window and a niche on the same side containing a figure of St. Nicholas. The belfry windows are double lancets and beneath them is a string

course. The chancel arch is low and rude, of semicircular form and not in the centre. The inner moulding is on imposts, the outer, which is chevroned, upon shafts. The roof has been lowered. The font is an excellent Norman one upon a step, the form circular with the rope moulding round the top; it is surrounded by rude sculpture within slightly pointed arches, in which appear the figures of the twelve Apostles, of St. Nicholas, and a representation of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary and St. John, which last faces the east. The glories round the heads are singular in their character, and the whole is particularly curious and a well preserved early specimen. There is a brass in the chancel of 1602.

ALL SAINTS, SETTRINGTON.

This church has portions of the three later styles, and consists of a good western tower, once crowned by a spire, a nave with side aisle, and a chancel. The tower is of grey stone, has a battlement with the wavy band and the pierced elongated quatrefoils, and is charged with shields in which occur various various armorial bearings, especially the cross engrailed. The west doorway has good arch mouldings, over it a Perpendicular window; the belfry windows are of two lights, and beneath the battlement is a corbel table with heads and pieces of foliage. The style appears to be of a transition from Decorated to Perpendicular, and there is much general resemblance to the steeple of Pickering. The buttresses are diagonal. The south doorway is Early English, but with ornaments almost Norman, as the rich double chevron with foliage and knobs. There are shields on the south wall. There is no clerestory, and a modern roof with fresh slates has a remarkably bad effect. The nave has four Early English arches on each side; most of the pillars are circular with octagonal capitals having a kind of foliage. The western arch on the north side is loftier than the rest, and the western pier on the south is octagonal and the font is attached to it. The tower arch is lofty and open to the nave, but is not in the centre. The arch to the chancel is wide and pointed. The chancel is raised on an elevation of several steps. Most of the windows which have not been altered have Perpendicular tracery. There is some

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