The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Martin (formerly)
Redundant parish church
Allerton Mauleverer is a village 5 miles east of Knaresborough in the West Riding. The medieval church of St Martin was almost entirely rebuilt in a neo-Norman style c.1745-6, retaining only the fourteenth-century S arcade. Leach and Pevsner (2009), 98, call it 'a very strange but not unattractive church... a mixture of Gothick, simplified Burlingtonian Palladian and what seems to be a proto-Neo-Norman - what the C18 would have called 'Saxon''. The plan is symmetrical, cruciform with an aisled nave and a tower over the W bay of the chancel: this plan may in part relate to the medieval building, see Comments. The church was declared redundant in 1971 and came into guardianship of the Redundant Churches Fund (now Churches Conservation Trust) in 1973. No Romanesque remains are visible, but material has been recovered from a small excavation in 1976. No photographs are currently available.
Parish church, formerly chapel
A simple church of nave and chancel in one. The church was largely rebuilt 1777-8. The earlier fabric is rag-stone, repairs in brick in the upper parts. The only Romanesque feature is a plain circular font, shallow and on a stem.