closed, and the arch internally altered into a square head. The priests' door is obtuse-Early English on imposts. The nave has a flat roof, and is fitted with plain, open benches, the condition of the whole being rather sorry and neglected. The south porch is very plain.

SHIPTON, NEAR MARKET WEIGHTON (dedication unknown).

Jan. 23, 1863.-A small church, having nave and chancel, with north aisle to both, a south porch, and western tower. The exterior is rather mean and out of condition. Within the porch is a very fine Norman doorway, of two orders, with an outer moulding; one order has the beak heads, the other the cylinder carved upon shafts, with square abaci. The porch is Perpendicular; the outer doorway has a continuous arch, and over it is a rude statue of a crowned bishop. The tower is small and very poor-of three stages, diminishing upwards, with battlements and eight small pinnacles, but no buttresses; the belfry window is debased. On the west side is a slit aperture. At the west end of the aisle is a lancet window; one window of the aisle is square-headed, Decorated, of three lights. The interior is better than the outside, and divided by an Early English arcade of five pointed arches, of which three are in the nave and two in the chancel. The arches have good mouldings; the piers are circular, with capitals; the two arches which are attached to the chancel are much narrower. The church has neat new open benches of plain character. The chancel has a flat modern ceiling, cutting both chancel arch and window. The east window, Decorated, of three lights; of the other windows, one is a two-light Decorated, and square headed, and some are lancets. There is a small vestry to the north, of which the east window is of two lights and debased. Close to the east window of the chancel is a stone bracket. The chancel arch is pointed, with good mouldings. The font is a plain octagon. There are no parapets to the nave or chancel. The aisle of the nave is taller than that of the chancel, and there is a north door, now closed.

ALL SAINTS, LONDESBOROUGH.

Jan. 23, 1863.-This church is somewhat secluded from view, in a churchyard shaded by fine trees. It consists of a nave and chancel, with north aisle to both a south porch and western tower. The porch is of Italian design; within it is a plain and rather early looking Norman doorway, having a plain tympanum under the arch and a square door head. The arch is on large cushion capitals with abaci, but the shafts have perished. The western respond is a plain. pilaster.

The arcade of the nave is Early English; it has four plain chamfered pointed arches on light circular columns, of which one has in its capital a course of nail-heads between two indented; one capital is plain, and one has the nail-head. The capitals are octagonal in form. The south side of the nave has been reconstructed, with late and poor Perpendicular windows. The north wall is carried uninterrupted along nave and chancel, and has Decorated windows of late character, with square heads and two lights. There is no west window to the aisle.

The chancel arch is wide and obtuse, on octagonal capitals. The chancel has a mutilated east window, and square-headed Decorated ones of two lights on the south side. Encroaching on the chancel arch is a huge pew of Caroline period, with a roof to it. The chancel is divided from its aisle by two pointed arches on central octagonal pier, on square base, which is short. The responds are respectively circular and octagonal capitals. The chancel has a flat roof. A vast, sumptuous tomb of the seventeenth century throws the altar out of its proper place. The nave is fitted with uniform pews, probably erected a hundred years ago. The tower arch is pointed, plain, on imposts. The font is Early English, bowl octagonal, on six clustered short shafts, with moulded caps and bases, and set on an octagonal plinth.

The tower is low and plain; Early English in its lower portion, having a lancet on three sides, and a stair turret projecting at the south-west. The upper part is late Perpendicular, and has a battlement and four short pinnacles. There are no buttresses to the tower.

ALL SAINTS, NORTH CAVE.

Jan. 24, 1863.-A large church, of meagre Perpendicular work, which appears to be wholly the work of post Reformation period, but having a decided ecclesiastical character, with some peculiarities. If this be the case, it is a very interesting specimen, though the details are poor.

The plan is a clerestoried nave, with north and south aisles, north and south transept, chancel, south porch, and west tower. The nave has on each side an arcade of three large wide pointed arches on circular columns having moulded caps, above which is a clerestory of plain three-light windows. The tower arch is pointed, on octagonal shafts; there are smaller pointed arches without imposts between the aisles and the transeptal chapels. The transept barely develops the cruciform arrangement as there is no crossing, but each portion of the transept merely set at right angles to the nave. The windows of the nave are of two and three lights, without foliations,

The chancel arch is pointed, but rather low, on imposts. The roofs are flat, with ribs and bosses. The chancel is stalled, but in a plain, bald fashion. In the south-east window is an alabaster effigy of a female, and one of a knight opposite. The base of the roodscreen is discernible. The font is modern. The clerestory is embattled, but not the aisles or chancel, and the outer walls are much covered with ivy. The tower has a battlement and unfinished pinnacles; it has no buttresses, and is divided by two string courses. At the north-east is an octagonal stair turret, but there is no doorway to the tower.

The interior is regularly lined, and there is a west gallery and organ. The church was probably newly fitted up and arranged with some care a hundred years ago, and though by no means up to the present standard, it contrasts favourably with the state of many churches.

ALL SAINTS, SOUTH CAVE.

Jan. 24, 1863.-A neat church, in excellent condition, having recently undergone a thorough renovation within and without, and partially rebuilt. It consists of nave, with north aisle, south transept, chancel, with north aisle and west tower, and south porch. The latter, with the whole of the south wall of the nave, has been rebuilt, but the inner doorway, which is obtuse, arched upon imposts, may be original. The windows south of the nave are of three lights and Perpendicular, as are those of the north aisle. The interior is solemn and well appointed, the nave wide, with a roof of fair pitch; the seats are all open and of neat character, and the whole of the fittings satisfactory. Most of the windows contain new stained glass. The nave has on the north an arcade of three wide, pointed arches, on octagonal pillars, with capitals, and there is a clerestory of twolight square-headed windows. The tower arch is pointed, springing from the wall, and, being left quite open, the tower window is seen through. The nave and tower seem Perpendicular, but the transept has earlier work, and its outer wall has not been touched. It opens to the nave by a pointed Early English arch on shafts, with octagonal caps of foliage. It has two-light Decorated windows east and west, and externally over them a string course with ball flowers. It contains a piscina with an obtuse arch.

The chancel has been mostly rebuilt, and has on the south Decorated windows of two lights, set on strings very high. The east window has flowing tracery of four lights. The chancel arch seems Early English, with shafts having octagonal caps. The chancel is divided from its aisle by two pointed arches on an octagonal

column. This aisle is much smaller than that of the nave, and is used as a vestry. The font has an octagonal bowl, with some figures of angels bearing shields. The tower is plain Perpendicular, and, as also the transept, has the walls covered with stucco. It is embattled, with eight short pinnacles; it has a new west window of three lights, belfry windows of two, and square and corner buttresses. churchyard is very pretty, and well kept.

ST. OSWALD, HOTHAM.

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Jan. 24, 1863.-A very uninteresting church, almost wholly modernised. It has a nave and chancel, with south porch and west tower, and a kind of north chapel, or transept. It is so entirely modernised, and in a mean way without and within, that scarcely any original architectural character is discernible, except about the exterior of the west end. The lower part of the tower still retains a Norman doorway with double cylinder moulding, and shafts with cushion capitals; also a chevroned string course on the south and west, and a doubtful-looking lancet at the west of the nave, north of the tower. The upper part of the tower is modern.