Church of St. Mary, Lastingham

East view

(British Online History)

North elevation, showing the apse to the west, the north aisle and the John Loughborough Pearson modern clerestory above

Five three-stage buttresses along the north aisle external wall (Page, 1914:524-529) with 'the easternmost adapted to a chimney stack' (British Listed Buildings).  

View from the south east

East view, showing the C11 apse and the late C14 south aisle

West C14 embattled tower with diagonal offset buttresses (British Listed Buildings)

C14 embattled tower to west 

'[W]est window of 2 trefoil-headed lights beneath panel tracery in square-headed surround' (British Listed Buildings).

North west C11 respond to north west pier projecting beyond end wall (Page, 1914:524-529).  

Modern 1879 John Loughborough Pearson south porch leading into C15 south aisle

South aisle with embattled parapet (British Listed Buildings) 

Porch dwarf diagonal offset buttresses (British Listed Buildings)

Herringbone tooling, widespread in the mid to late C18 and C19 (Houses of the North York Moors, 1987: 207)

One of two windows on the south aisle, 'of paired cusped lights with mouchettes above, in square-headed chamfered surrounds' (British Listed Buildings).

Sandstone

Lead covered roofs

'East end of [south] aisle has a pointed window of 3 trefoil-headed lights beneath curvilinear tracery and corbel-stopped hoodmould'. (British Listed Buildings)

Single light below apse into crypt with later external trefoil head (Page, 1914:524-529)

View from the current central nave to the chancel and semi-domed apse to the east

Vaulting and clerestory from restoration work in 1879 by John Loughborough Pearson

Clerestory

Steps down to Norman crypt

Crypt




References and Links
Page, W. (ed.) (1914) 'Parishes: Lastingham', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1, pp. 524-529, [Online], Available: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64796 [20 Jul 2014].
'Church of St. Mary, Lastingham', British Listed Buildings, [Online], Available: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-328931-church-of-st-mary-lastingham-north-yorks [20 Jul 2014].
Houses of the North York Moors (1987) London:Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.