All Saints' Church, Driffield
All Saints' Church is the parish church of Driffield, a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England.
There was a church in Driffield before the Norman Conquest, and some large stones from it appear to be built into the tower. The earliest substantial parts of the current building are the 12th-century nave and clerestory. Aisles and a chancel were built early in the 13th century, and a tower in the 15th century. The church was altered by George Gilbert Scott Jr. between 1878 and 1880, the work including rebuilding the north aisle and adding a north chapel. The building was grade I listed in 1963.[1][2][3]
The church is built in stone, with roofs of slate and lead, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, a moulded plinth, string courses, angle buttresses, a south pointed window with a hood mould, clock faces, three-light bell openings with hood moulds and crocketed ogee gablets, and an embattled parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. The south doorway dates from the early 13th century and has three orders, with colonnettes and mouldings, and the clerestory windows are round-headed and date from the 12th century. Inside, the cylindrical font dates from about 1180, there is a 14th-century piscina, and a selection of 12th-century fragments found during the Victorian restoration.[3][4]
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References
- ↑ "All Saints, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, East Riding". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "All Saints". National Churches Trust. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- 1 2 Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Driffield (1083378)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ↑ 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.