All Saints' Church, Burythorpe

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The church, in 2015

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Burythorpe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The church sits on top of a hill, west of the village, with views in all directions.[1][2] The first church on the site was Mediaeval,[2] described in 1848 as "an ancient edifice with substantial buttresses".[3] It was demolished in the 1850s, and replaced by a new building, designed by William and John Bownas Atkinson. The building was grade II listed in 1966.[4]

The font

The church is built of limestone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in the Gothic Revival style. It consists of a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a single-bay chancel with a north vestry. The west front has angle buttresses, and a central buttress carrying a gabled bellcote, flanked by trefoil-headed lancet windows. The porch has a pointed arch with a moulded surround. In the nave are paired lancet windows, and at the east end are stepped lancets with a cinquefoil above. Inside the church is a 12th-century tub font, and two marble wall tablets from the 1850s. The east window, contemporary with the church, was designed by Alexander Gibbs.[4][1][2]

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  1. ^ a b Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David (1995) [1972]. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. The Buildings of England (2 ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09593-7.
  2. ^ a b c "All Saints". National Churches Trust. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  3. ^ Lewis, S. (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. London. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1149112)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 May 2024.