More information : [TA 23550330] St. Helen's Church [TU] (1)
St. Helen's Church, Barnoldby, is Early English. At the right side
of the old south doorway inside the porch is a mass-dial. (2-4)
In Normal use. (5)
ST HELEN. The oldest piece in the church, visibe outside, is the
modest, single-chamfered S doorway, probably of c.1200. Of the late
C13 the S windows of the chancel (rebuit in 1860) with Y-tracery and
the S aisle windows with Geometrical and intersecting tracery.
Then, still outside only, the N aisle, minor Dec work. After that
the W tower Late Dec or Early Perp (rebuilt in 1901), see the
bell-openings on the one hand, the arch inside with its moulding and
head stops on the other.
Finally the Perp clerestory. The three-light windows have
depressed straight-sided arches. Now the interior. The four-bay
arcades consist of three bays of the late C13 and an easterly
lengthening, not much later. Both sides have quatrefoil piers and
double-chamfered arches, but the piers on the N side with keeled
foils and circular abaci, those on the s side with filleted foils
and in one case a little nailhead in the abacus. Perp probaby the
roof of the N aisle with rustic bosses. Some bosses are re-used on
the Pulpit. (6)
6/8 Church of Saint Helen
4.1.67 Grade I
Parish church. Late C13 south door; C13-C14 arcades, aisles and
tower; C14-C15 nave clerestory and tower parapet. Re-roofed and
chancel rebuilt 1839. Restorations of 1892 by Ewan Christian
included re-flooring and re-seating nave and aisles, re-roofing
south aisle and repairing windows. Tower and porch rebuilt 1901-2
by C Hodgson Fowler of Durham. Ironstone rubble and squared
blocks, chalk rubble, flint and cobbes; limestone ashlar
dressings, facing to nave clerestory and tower parapet; sandstone
re-facing to tower, rendering to north aisle. West tower, 4-bay
nave with 3-bay aises and south porch, 2 bay chancel. 2-stage
tower: angle buttresses, restored pointed 2-light traceried
west window, C20 single trefoiled light north window. 2-light
traceried belfry openings (restored to north and west) with bold
hoodmoulds and headstops; string course, angle gargoyles and
coped embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles. South
aisle: shallow buttresses, pointed 2-light traceried windows with
encircled quatrefois, pointed 3-light east window with intersecting
tracery and hood mould; string course, coped parapet and crocketed
angle pinnacles. North aisle: chamfered plinth, buttresses;
pointed chamfered door with hoodmould and rustic headstops,
pointed 2-light window with curvilinear tracery, square-headed
2-light trefoiled window, C15 triangular-headed 3-light trefoiled
window with hoodmould, pointed 3-light traceried east window,
triangular-headed 3-light mullioned window, crocketed angle
pinnacles. Nave clerestory: triangular-headed 3 light trefoiled
windows with hoodmoulds; string-course, parapet and crocketed angle
pinnacles. Chancel: buttresses at angles and between bays, those
to south-east with carved grotesques; pointed 2-light south window
with restored Y-tracery, hoodmould and foliate stops, north
lancet, pointed 3-light Y-traceried east window with hoodmould
and foliate stops. Porch: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses,
round-headed outer arch with mouldings dying into jambs, coped
gable with re-set medieval grotesque. Round-headed inner arch
with plain moulded imposts and hoodmould. Interior: Arcades: 3
late C13 bays, extended to east in later C13 - early C14. Pointed
double-chamfered arches, with carved head corbels to south. Keeled
quartrefoi north piers with circular abaci and similar inserted
pier with quatrefoil abacus. Filleted quatrefoil south piers, one
with nailhead moulded abacus, and inserted plain quatrefoil pier.
Moulded capitals and bases throughout, more ornate to inserted
piers. C14 pointed moulded tower arch of 2 orders with hoodmould
and headstops; line of former nave gable above. Pointed
double-chamfered chancel arch with inner order dying into jambs.
Pointed piscina to south aide of chancel with mutilated bowl.
North aisle lean-to roof has moulded tie-beams and butt-purlins
with C16 and later carved bosses, one dated 1839; similar bosses
re-set on C19 pulpit and on C19 nave and chancel roofs. Worn
re-used medieval grave slab at west end of north aisle with indent
for small brass of 2 figures. Former C11 - C12 circular font bowl
in south aisle. Present font has C13 circular bowl with
intersecting arches on later cylindrical column base. C14
stained glass to top section of pointed north aisle window, and to
south aisle east window, including crucifixus and figure of
St Mary. (7)
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