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24. The Parish Church of
All Saints Pavement, York, St Mary's Church, Castlegate (now art display centre)
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All Saints Church, Pavement,
York
On the north door of All Saints Pavement,
York, is a replica of a 12th century Doom Knocker, representing the
Mouth of Hell.
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All Saints’ Church, Pavement, York is a Grade I listed parish church in
the Church of England in York. Services are from the Book of Common Prayer.
The church dates from the 14th century. The chancel was demolished in 1780
and the east end was rebuilt. The north wall and the west end were rebuilt
in 1834. The lantern was rebuilt in 1837. The vestry was added between 1850
and 1855. The church was restored in 1887 by George Edmund Street when the
stonework was cleaned, the pinnacles restored, and the central east window
fitted with stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe. The church is the guild
and civic church for the city of York, and the regimental church for the
Royal Dragoon Guards. In 1954 the church was united with the parish of St
Saviour's Church, York when St Saviour's Church was declared redundant.
The lantern topped tower of the Parish Church of All Saints Pavement, York
The octagonal tower Parish and Guild Church
of All Saints, Pavement. The lantern tower (19th C reproduction) is one
of the finest in England and the original medieval octagonal tower would
have guided people to York.
All Saints is just at the
end of Parliament Street where it meets Coppergate and High Ousegate.
The east end of All Saints,
much of the building dates from the 14th to 15th century. The Domesday
Book records a church here in 1087 called All Hallows and in the
churchyard Saxon and Danish burial stones have been found.
The new stained glass window in memory of members
of the armed forces who lost their lives in Afghanistan from
2000-2014
(Parish Church of All Saints
Pavement, York)
he memorial panels to Lance Bombardier Matthew
Hatton, Trooper Ashley David Smith and Marine David Hart
Memorial window to various regiments of the 7th,
Royal and Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
(Parish Church of All Saints
Pavement, York)
The 'book ends' of the old wooden lectern in
(Parish Church of All Saints
Pavement, York)
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Saxon gravestone slab in Parish
Church of All Saints Pavement, York
The nave of All Saints,
Pavement and the great east window above the altar. The stained glass is
by the celebrated Victorian artist Charles E. Kempe. The original chancel was demolished in 1782 to allow
more room for the grain market.
The east window
depicts a host of Saints.
Looking down the nave to the west window
Left:
Lectern (details below). Right: The fine
pulpit on the right dates from 1634. Its canopy, called a tester or
sounding board, was meant to amplify the preacher's voice for the
benefit of the congregation. The Anglican clergyman John Wesley
(1703-1791), noted evangelist and co-founder of Methodism, preached
from this pulpit on several occasions.
On the left of the entrance to the
chancel is a 15th century lectern that was originally in St Crux
Church, York. On one side is a hole for holding a scroll of
music and on the other is a curious carving of a man with a
floppy hat and a lolling tongue (see pictures below).
The carved figures on the
lectern support.
The praying angels at the
east end of the north aisle.
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Above the vestry door are replicas
of the sword and gauntlets of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of
Northumberland, who was executed in the Pavement in 1572 for
leading a rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I.
A fine brass panel of ?
Some medieval glass lenses
from the lamp that was once in the octagonal tower of All Saints
Pavement Church, which was built~1400.
The west window is made of ancient
glass from ~1370 comprising a collection of fragments from St
Saviour's Church, York. It has a unique series of Passion Panels
(more detailed pictures of these 14th century stained glass
panels below).
Some details of the stained glass panels of the west window.
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Street musicians by the side of
All Saints Pavement Church, York
St Mary's Church, Castlegate -
redundant as a church but used as an art gallery display area
The tower of St Mary's Church, Castlegate, York
St Mary's Castlegate was founded in 1020,
probably on the site of a Saxon church. The building dates mainly from
the 13th, 14th and 15th century, when the 154ft/47m spire was built
St Mary's Church from
the Coppergate shopping complex near the River Foss
The use of St Mary's Church, Castlegate, York as an art exhibition
centre
The pictures above and
below show The Memory of Place by Keiko Mukaide in 2007. The lighted
candles drift slowly down the shallow wide water trough.
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In 2011 more than a
thousand flattened silver objects were suspended in the nave of York St
Mary's. The work is entitled
Thirty Pieces of Silver. The 'installation'?, is by
internationally renowned artist Cornelia Parker and includes plates,
spoons, candlesticks, trophies, cigarette cases, teapots and trombones,
which Cornelia collected and then squashed with a steamroller. The
objects are arranged into thirty disc-shaped groups and suspended from
the roof of the former church by fine wires, a few centimetres off the
ground so that they seem to hover
Some fine carving on the
capitals.
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Panes of medieval stained
glass in St Mary's Church.
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St James window.
More of the painted glass panels within
the medieval tracery of the windows - Victorian I assume?
Due to the floods in York in December 2015, the Jorvik Centre is closed
while being refurbished for the Spring of 2017
In the mean time, in 2016, various exhibitions on
the Vikings are being held around York including St Mary's Church, Castlegate.
 
A nice view of two cultures!
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A fine medieval setting for a Viking exhibition!
 
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