The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Quentin (medieval)
Parish church
Kirk Hammerton is a village in Yorkshire between York and Harrogate. The church of St John the Baptist (formerly St Quentin) has a complex architectural history. The building comprises a Saxon church (tower, nave, chancel) now acting as S aisle and chapel to a larger Victorian church of 1890-91 added on its N side; there was also some 'restrained' restoration at this time (Leach and Pevsner 2009, 374). The Saxon nave wall between the two is pierced by a two-bay arcade with pointed arches; the Saxon N chancel wall also has been opened up. The only clearly Romanesque sculpture is a re-used piscina basin in the form of a capital, a re-used corbel in the E wall of the Saxon chancel, and a third stone which may be relevant is in the E respond of the arcade.