All Saints' Church, Muston

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

In the early Mediaeval period, Muston was in the parish of All Saints' Church, Hunmanby, although it had a chapel of ease by 1115, and had its own vicar from 1269. [1] In 1856, it was described as a "a small and mean, ancient, edifice", with a nave, chancel and south porch and a turret; [2] the floor was paved with pebbles. [1] In 1863, the church was demolished and a replacement constructed on the same site, to a design by William Baldwin Stewart. The building was grade II listed in 1966.> [3]

The church is built of limestone on a moulded chamfered plinth and has a slate roof. It consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a vestry. On the west gable is a gabled bellcote with two pointed arches on colonnettes, and a clock face on the east side. Inside the porch are two re-set medieval carved heads. [3] [4] Inside, the altar table has an early stone base, there is a possible holy water stoup, a Norman font, and a piscina in the form of a pillar. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "All Saints, Muston, Yorkshire, East Riding". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  2. Sheahan, J. J.; Whellan, T. (1867). History and Topography of the City of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Beverley: John Green.
  3. 1 2 Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Muston (1316466)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  4. 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.