More information : [SK 5917 9308] St Mary's Church [T.U.] (1)
A church and priest are recorded, at Tickhill, in the DOMESDAY
SURVEY. (a) It was among gifts made to NOSTELL priory by King HENRY I (b) [1100-1135.] (2)
St MARY'S CHURCH, TICKHILL, comprises a chancel, with N & S chapels, a nave, with aisles, N & S, porches and W tower. The church was rebuilt Late 14th or Early 15th C, but incorporates earlier work. The lower part of the tower and fragments of the chancel, date from the end of the 12th C. The N chapel is Early 14th C. (3)
"The church was built in the reign of Richard II" (4)
Architectural description. (5)
Description. (6)
Brief description. (7)
John of Gaunt, whose arms appear upon a shield outside the church
tower, had a hand in the enlargement and completion of the Parish church in the reign of Richard II, his nephew. William de Estfield, a Tickhill merchant and steward of the Honour, "obtained leave to fetch stone from the ancient church of All Hallows, already in a ruinous state, and incorporated it in the new fabric, especially in the Laughton Chapel on the North-east of the church."
[All Hallows (site of) SK 59 SE 5.] (8)
The church is still in use for public worship. (9)
Condition unchanged. (10)
Church of
St Mary
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One of the 6 larger parish churches in the former West Riding.
Magnesian limestone.
Lower stage of tower early C13. North-east chapel evidently earlier
C14. Remainder probably rebuilt not long after, and ending up with
the west tower which can be dated by historic evidence 1373-99.
Tower still incomplete in 1429, possibly providing a date for the
crenellated parapet.
Lower stage of tower includes simple clasping buttreses, and
elaborate Early English west doorway, all decorated with nailhead.
North-east chapel has Decorated tracery.
Nave and aisles early Perpendicular in style; steep 2-centred arches throughout, arcade upper mouldings carried upwards originally to foliated crockets.
Nave east window over (low) chancel arch, on the Gloucester/
Cirencester/Northleach model. Two clerestory windows per bay, on the East Anglian model.
Unusual crenellations to tower parapet, linked by arches, on the model of Blyth (Notts).
One monument on considerable art-historical importance to Thomas Fitzwilliam (died 1478) and his wife, removed from the Friary at the Dissolution. Probably circa 1530 and early English Renaissance in style. Alabaster. Tomb-chest with 2 reclining figures. Simple iron railings. Several wall tablets, including 2 good Baroque ones. Painted C18 Royal arms.
Fine traceried wooden screen to north-east chapel. Perpendicular style, but with rather unusual detailing, perhaps C17. Traceried wooden pulpit, also perhaps C17. C14 or C15 stained glass in south aisle window, allegedly brought from Roche Abbey.
Perpendicular panelled stone pulpit. (11)
Additional reference. (12)
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