All Saints, North Street

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All Saints, North Street, view from the east
Location of All Saints, North Street

The medieval church All Saints in the North Street in York is abbreviated and to distinguish it from the church , All Saints Pavement commonly known as All Saints, North Street called. The church used to be called All Hallows on North Street .

location

The church is located within the confines of medieval downtown York on North Street, which runs parallel to the River Ouse to the west , and is adjacent to a number of 15th century timber-framed houses . The land on which the church is located is said to have been donated by the Norman tenant-in-chief Ralph de Paganel, whose name also lives on in the place name Hooton Pagnell in Yorkshire .

Building history

The church is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1166-79 as property of the Holy Trinity Priory , but was probably built some time before. Archaeological studies show that a Roman column was reused during the construction, which thus forms the oldest part of the church building and is located on the north wall of the choir. Further Roman column foundations were found near the west facade, which may have belonged to a Roman temple building at this point.

At the end of the 12th century, a side aisle was added to the initially simple church interior on the south flank, before the church was expanded to a cross shape in the 13th century. Chapels were added to the choir in the 14th century and further extensions followed by the middle of the 15th century with a side aisle on the west side and a slender tower with a 36 m high pointed spire that rises in the middle above the west facade. The hammer beam vault , which spans the choir and chapels, also dates from this time .

The building was fundamentally restored and rebuilt in 1866–76, 1884 and 1907–08, including 1906 choir screens based on a design by Ridsdale Tate. At the western end is a modern hermitage, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century, also based on a design by Ridsdale Tate, on the spot where a hermit's house had been located in the early 15th century. The Hermitage is an early example of the use of formwork concrete and was actually also inhabited by a hermit. In 1975, a controversial renovation of the interior took place, during which numerous fixtures were removed to give the church a more authentic medieval look.

architecture

All Saints, North Street is now a seven - bay, three - aisled church clad with ashlar from Magnesian Limestone ( dolomite from north-east England) . The central nave is wider than the aisles, but has the same height. The tower, which rises on the western front in the central nave is octagonal, with a pointed spire . The choir is architecturally not separated from the central nave.

Furnishing

The interior is decorated with a hammer beam ceiling from the 15th century, as is typical for English medieval church buildings. The semicircular beams of the vaulted ceiling rest on consoles in the form of carved angel figures bearing emblems and musical instruments. Because of its Anglo-Catholic past, the church contains many votive images. Up to a fundamental restoration in 1975, various other fixtures were made, which shaped the interior of the church and, according to contemporaries of the controversial restoration, should have given it a particularly "medieval" appearance. However, these fixtures were removed in the course of the restoration, so that today the interior is mainly characterized by the pulpit and beamed ceiling. The hexagonal pulpit from 1675 is made of oak, as is the preserved choir stalls from 1472. The choir screens were added in 1906.

  • View through the nave and choir

  • Beam ceiling of the choir

  • View into the north transept

  • baptism

  • organ

Medieval stained glass window

The windows with medieval stained glass are remarkable , including the windows in the north transept with depictions of the six " Works of Mercy " (after Matt. 25,31ff) and the "Sting of Conscience" ( Pricke of Conscience ). The latter shows the 15 signs for the end of the world based on a poem by Richard Rolle , a mystic from Yorkshire . Possibly the window of conscience is the work of John Thornton, who also created the great east window of York Minster . On the east wall of the north transept there is another glass window from the 14th century, which shows a birth scene ( nativitas ). In the east window of the main aisle, two donors, both named Nicholas Blackburn, are depicted with their wives, kneeling under a depiction of St. Anne teaching Mary to read, flanked by St. Christopher and John the Baptist.

  • Coats of Arms, All Saints' Church, North Street, York.jpg

  • Representation of the nine choirs of angels

  • St. Jacob's Window

  • Depiction of the Archangel Michael

  • Crucifixion scene

  • East window of the main nave, representation of Maria and Anna, with the Saints Christopher and John the Baptist, underneath the donors of the window

  • East window of the Lady Chapel with scenes from the life of Christ

  • St. Thomas window

  • north transept, representation of the "engraving of conscience" with the 15 signs for the end of the world

  • north transept, representation of the six works of mercy

Todays use

Today's All Saints Anglican Congregation, North Street, follows the Anglo-Catholic tradition, a form of the Anglican community that is close to Catholicism. This goes back to the initiative of Patrick Shaw, from 1908 to 1956 priest in All Saints, North Street, who dealt with the restoration of ancient rites in the liturgy with elements of the Sarum rite and the Tridentine rite . The "old" liturgy developed by Shaw is still practiced today with modifications. The numerous fixtures in the interior go back to Shaw during his tenure, with which he tried to recreate old Catholic elements of the decoration. In addition to furnishing the interior, this endeavor also concerned the clothing of the priests and altar servers and the implementation of the liturgy as a procession.

The congregation rejects the priestly ordination of women made possible by the Church of England in 1992 and has asked to be placed under a less liberal bishop ( Alternative Episcopal Oversight ). The ward is therefore not subordinate to the Bishop of York, but to the Bishop of Whitby .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shaw, Patrick: An Old York Church, All Hallows on North Street. 1908
  2. ^ History and Topography of the City of York, JJ Sheahan, T. Whellan, Vol. I, Printed by John Green, Beverley, 1857
  3. ^ A b c d Wilson, Barbara / Mee, Frances: The Medieval Parish Churches of York. The Pictorial Evidence . York, 1998, pp. 26-32
  4. ↑ 1920s after Seymour, Brian: York's Other Churches and Chapels . 1992, p. 21, 1910 after Wilson, Barbara / Mee, Frances: The Medieval Parish Churches of York. The Pictorial Evidence . York, 1998, pp. 26-32
  5. ^ A b c Seymour, Brian: York's Other Churches and Chapels . 1992, p. 21
  6. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus / Neave, David: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding . 2nd edition, 1995, pp. 157-159
  7. ^ Home, Gordon: York Minster & Neighboring Abbeys and Churches. 1936, pp. 148-149
  8. ↑ http://www.allsaints-northstreet.org.uk
  9. ↑ a b http://www.allsaints-northstreet.org.uk/ accessed on January 4, 2013

literature

  • Nikolaus Pevsner , and Neave, David [1972]: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding , 2nd edition. Edition, Penguin Books, London 1995, ISBN 0-14-071061-2 .
  • Antonia Evans (ed.): The York Book . Blue Bridge, York 2002, ISBN 0-9542749-0-3 .
  • Barbara Wilson, and Mee, Frances: The Medieval Parish Churches of York: the pictorial evidence . York Archaeological Trust , York 1998, ISBN 1-874454-19-1 .
  • Royal Commission on Historic Monuments [1981]: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: Vol V The Central Area . RCHM, England, ISBN 0-11-700892-3 .
  • Royal Commission on Historic Monuments [1972]: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: Vol III South-west of the Ouse . RCHM, England, ISBN 0-11-700466-9 .
  • Shaw, Patrick: At Old York Church, All Hallows on North Street. 1908
  • Home, Gordon: York Minster & Neighboring Abbeys and Churches. 1936, pp. 148-149
  • Seymour, Brian: York's Other Churches and Chapels . 1992, pp. 21-23

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '30.3 "  N , 1 ° 5' 10.7"  W.