
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

St Everilda (now)
Parish church
The church is at the S end of the village, near the gate to Everingham Park.
The early 13thc tower is made of stone and was renovated in 1588. Entrance is through the W doorway in the tower, which is covered by a modern porch. The nave and apsed sanctuary are made of 18thc brick probably subsequent to the building of Everingham Hall perhaps by John Carr. There are no plans in the faculty papers, Borthwick 1763/1.
The medieval church is likely to have been the first home of the Everingham font (see separate report); until recently the only font in the church was ‘an apothecary’s basin’ (Allen 1831, II, 236, quoted in Morris 1919, 149-50). This basin and a recently-acquired Victorian font flank the tower arch.
The tower arch to the nave is round-headed, and described by Morris as ‘plain semi-circular head, on distinctly Early English jambs’ (Morris, 1919, 149, 150); he is doubtful that the parts are in situ. The large size of the voussoirs of the single order arch, which has no label, suggests that the whole structure is not relevant to the Romanesque corpus.
There is some elaborated string course on the three exterior faces of the tower.
Parish church
Nether Poppleton is a village on the NW outskirts of York. (Note: Nether and Upper Poppleton are now one compact built-up area). The church is in a rural location at the edge of the village and is near the river Ouse. It is a twin-cell building with N vestry added to chancel, and a west and north gallery in the nave. Plain walls but with ancient complexity hinted at in various blocked arches in the chancel; enlivened by modern craftwork throughout. Twelfth-century remains are the chancel arch and perhaps the blocked arches in the chancel N and S walls, which are suggested by Pevsner to be the remains of a Norman crossing (1967, 374). There is also a reset corbel in the west wall of the nave.