The parish church of St Mary & All Saints, Sculthorpe – the third on this site – chiefly consists of an early 14th century south-west tower, a late 14th century nave and north aisle, the chancel of 1846-48 and the south aisle Lady Chapel and western “Galilee” added in 1860-61.
The fine, early Norman font, depicting the Adoration of the Magi on one side and the Star of Bethlehem on the other, is reputedly a surviving part of the Norman church with its 60 acres of glebe land mentioned in the Domesday Book (1068). The fine chamber organ (1755) was built by John Snetzler, its case carved and gilded in 1773 when it was a fixture within the Assembly Rooms at Blake Street in York. There are a number of fine memorial brasses in this church; Henry Unton, Receiver of Fines at the Court of Common Pleas (1470); John & Elizabeth Humpton and their children (1521); inscriptions to John & Margaret Stebyrd (c.1480) and to “Syr George Brown Sometime parish priest of this town” (c.1520). TheVictorian stained glass windows are especially famous. Two were commissions from William Morris & Company; a south chancel window by Ford Maddox Brown (1864) and in the Lady Chapel “Faith, Hope & Charity” designed by Burne-Jones (1865-66) and shown at the Paris Exhibition in 1867. A third window, depicting the “Story of Ruth” in the western “Gailiee”, was designed by Robert Turnill Bayne and shown at the Second International Exhibition in London in 1862.
There is an ornate Victorian Gothic memorial, by Myers of Lambeth, on the north wall of the chancel commemorating the life of Major-General Sir John Thomas Jones, Baronet. of Cranmer Hall (1783-1843). He was one of the distinguished Royal Engineers who served during the Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington and was present at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
In 1381 Sir Robert Knollys, a veteran commander in the Hundred Years War and Esquire-at-Arms to Edward the Black Prince, built his fortified manor house here on the site of the present Manor Farmhouser and commenced to rebuild Sculthorpe Church, of which the nave and north aisle of the late 14th century are his surviving work.
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