The church of St Mary the Virgin, Hemingbrough is a Grade I

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Hemingbrough Hemingbrough is a small village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England that is located approximately from Selby and from Howden on the A63. The village has a 12th-century former collegiate church (Hemingbrough Mins ...

, district of Selby,

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. It is also known as ''Hemingbrough Minster''.

History

The building originates from the late 12th century CE, additions were made in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries.

William the Conqueror William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Norman ...

gave the church to the prior and convent of Durham. On 26 October 1426 Henry VI gave licence to convert it into a collegiate church with residentiary canons whose period of residence was thirteen weeks each. From 1479 this also applied to the provost who until then was compelled to be resident for the greater part of the year. There were also three prebendaries, six vicars, and six clerks. The college was suppressed in 1545. The church is home to one of the UK's oldest surviving Misericords dating to the first part of the 13th century.

Architecture

The church is of a cruciform layout and is built in the Decorated and later English style, although the windows in the north transept and the nave are

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. The tower is square and carries battlements and an octangular spire. The tower was added in the 13th century, the spire which reaches a height of between 1416 and 1446. The nave is aisled and has four bays, as has the south aisle of the chancel. The chapter house has three bays. The vestry lies to the north. North and south transepts have two bays each.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hemingbrough, St Mary Church of England church buildings in North Yorkshire Grade I listed churches in North Yorkshire Selby District