The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Augustine of Hippo (formerly)
Parish church
The church is a large Gothic building, standing on a rise within the grid of the planned medieval streets (VCH V, 172). Pevsner & Neave (1995, 453) call it ‘one of the five largest and grandest parish churches of the East Riding.’ It was restored in 1868-77 by G. E. Street.
The earliest sculpture in good condition is a cluster of stiff-leaf capitals inside, where the S transept turns into the S nave aisle. Some writers suggest the building was begun as early as 1180, but there is little more than a blocked window, the roundness of the arch of the S transept doorway and some shallow pilasters on the wall nearby to recall Romanesque work.