St Martin's Church is a historic
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
church in the village of
Allerton Mauleverer
Allerton Mauleverer is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton parish. The parish is in the district of Harrogate, and lies just east of the town Knaresborough. From ...
,
North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II*
listed building,
and is under the care of The
Churches Conservation Trust.
It is sited just outside Allerton Park, the grounds of
Allerton Castle, which has been the home of the
Mauleverer family for nearly 700 years.
History
A church
dedicated to Saint Martin was first built on the site by a member of the Mauleverer family in the late 12th or early 13th century.
[ The present church was remodelled in 1745–46 for Richard Arundell, heir to the Mauleverers and MP for Knaresborough.][ St Martin's was declared redundant on 1 December 1971, and was ]vested
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in the Trust on 27 July 1973.
Architecture
Exterior
St Martin's is constructed in ashlar
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on its west front, and in coursed limestone elsewhere. It is roofed in stone slates, and the architectural style is Norman revival
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Ethnic and cultural identity
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. Its plan consists of a six-bay
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nave with north and south aisles and transepts, and a two-bay chancel. Between the nave and chancel is a central tower. At the west front are three gables at the ends of the nave and the aisles. The nave has a central round-headed doorway, over which is a circular window. On each side of this window is a round-headed window. The west fronts of the aisles protrude slightly forward from the nave, and each contains a round-headed window between two pilasters. Along the sides of the church are four round-headed windows, and the windows in the transepts have two lights. The east window has five lights and is in Perpendicular style. The tower has three stages; in the top stage are two round-headed bell openings on each side. On the tower is a pyramidal roof with a weather vane.[
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Interior
Inside the church is a vase-shaped font
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, a two-decker pulpit
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with a sounding board
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, and panelled
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box pews. Between the nave and the chancel, and between the nave and the transepts, are iron gates.[ The church has a ]hammerbeam roof
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and on the chancel arch is a painting of Moses
Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pro ...
and Aaron
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.[ In the north transepts are four effigies; two of these are in wood depicting knights with crossed legs dating from the late 13th or the early 14th century; the other two are in alabaster, dated 1475, and represent Sir John Mauleverer and his wife. In the south transept is the large tomb of Mrs Mary Thornton who died in 1800.][
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See also
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References
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Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire
Churches completed in 1746
18th-century Church of England church buildings
Romanesque Revival church buildings in England
Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust