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All Saints' Church, Normanton

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and Levetts. The Mallets it would seem were a very ancient family, as we are told their ancestors flourished here in the middle of the 13th century. The tomb on the top bears the arms of the Levetts together with the arms of the Mallets. On the wall above the tomb is an undated tablet recording that 'Mrs. Elizabeth Levett made benefaction for the poor of Normanton and Snydale, and for teaching poor children.' There also are tombs of the Torres mentioned under Snydale."
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of Normanton. The Favells were an important Normanton family and were resident here in the early part of the 17th century. On the south chancel floor are memorial slabs of the Favells bearing the dates 1698, 1714, 1777 and others in the 18th century. Here also is a large altar tomb of the Malletts
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In "Normanton, Past and Present," author Walter Hampson (1928) noted the monuments within the church: "The chapel is the burial place of the Bunnys of Newland, Torres of Snydale, Favells of Normanton, Smiths (now Bosworths) late of Newland and the Mallets and
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In 1906, a medieval altar slab bearing five incised crosses was found under the sanctuary floor, where it had probably lain since the reformation. It now stands in the Lady Chapel and is used for weekly Eucharist.
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Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes. The Wapentake of Agbrigg, Printed for the Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, 1884
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The current church is believed to have existed since at least 1256, and thought to have been commissioned by Roger Le Peytevin of
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Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Joseph Jackson Howard (ed.), Vol. I, Third Series, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1896
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The first Favell, Christopher, came to Normanton by virtue of his marriage to the widow of Thomas Levett of Normanton.
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style, being built mainly of coursed dressed sandstone blocks under a stone slate roof and consists of a three-bay
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The window to the left of the porch was an addition in the late 1970s as a memorial to the explorer,
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inscribed "The Gift of Mrs Henry Favell of Pontefract to the Church of Normanton for ever 1699"
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In 1256, Le Peytevin, a Norman Baron, granted the church to the Hospital of St. John, of the
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There is list of incumbents engraved on an oak board above the door to the old clergy
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of 1086. It is likely that the current church stands on the lines of the original.
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on the north wall of the chancel dating back to Henry of Kyrkeby, clerk in 1252.
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There are several monuments in All Saints' Church to the Yorkshire antiquarian
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Walks in Yorkshire, Wakefield and Its Neighbourhood, William Stott Banks, 1871
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The Mallets and the Levetts had lived in Normanton for centuries. (The first
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All Saints' possesses two ancient silver cups, now housed in a collection at
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There is low octagonal stone Font, now standing at the west end of the nave.
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Walks in Yorkshire; Wakefield and Its Neighbourhood, William S. Banks, 1871
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Monuments in Normanton Church, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1879
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The window at the east end of the Lady Chapel depicting the fall of the
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had married Elizabeth, daughter of William Levett of Normanton).
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The church houses the Freeston Tomb, the burial place of Sir
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Anglican Church in Normanton, West Yorkshire, England
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53°41′52″N 1°24′54″W / 53.6979°N 1.4149°W / 53.6979; -1.4149
OS grid reference
SE 38737 22539
Denomination
Anglican
Vicar(s)
Normanton
West Yorkshire
England
Altofts
Domesday Book
Knights Hospitallers
Newland
perpendicular
chancel
nave
clerestory
John Freeston
Altofts
Kirkthorpe
Warmfield
Freeston Business and Enterprise College
Walls of Jericho
Great War
Martin Frobisher
York Minster
porringer
Levetts
High Sheriff of Yorkshire

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