ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENT UNDER THREAT

St Augustine's today is both a living Christian church and a great architectural monument to our forefathers. The continuity of Christian worship is in the hands of its parishioners but the retention of the ancient monument and landmark depends on the support of a much wider "congregation." This Restoration and Development Appeal must go out throughout the land to all those with concern for the preservation of our great heritage, for the "King of Holderness" is a Grade 1 Listed Building under the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission.

Some descriptions from a recent Architect's Report give a flavour of the beautiful building and the styles incorporated in it :

FROM THE EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD (1187 - 1302) come the original parts of the Transept and Chancel and the beautiful wall arcading in the Vestry. A particular feature is the dogtooth carving of much of the stonework with an especially fine example in the North Transept doorway.

FROM THE DECORATED PERIOD (1302 - 1377) comes the Nave, six of the Aisle windows with quatrefoil tracery, the Clerestory, the west façade middle window and the Nave Aisles. The east wall of the Chancel was rebuilt in the fourteenth century and the effigy of a bearded man, the front and the stone shields on the Nave arcades were added.
The North Transept doorway
the East Window
St Augustine's from the east, showing the East Window and the tower



THE PERPENDICULAR REMAINS (1377 - 1485) include the East Window, the west end of the church with the unique flowing tracery of the final bay windows, the tower with its pierced parapet and the two-storey Vestry, together with a long and short lancet, a priest's seat, a piscina and a knight's stone. The Royal Arms are sixteenth century.

A plan of St Augustine's can be seen on this page.

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