Holbeck St Winifred

Features and Fittings

Altar

Altar rail and
carved angel

North choir stalls

South choir seat

Misericord

Altar in Norman style by Harry Stubbings and the altar rail, both of stone, the latter with carved angels by Alice Meredith Williams.

Choir stalls of plain, polished timber with minimal decoration.

Single seat in choir south side of similar design to stalls but with carved, unpainted, misericord depicting the arms of the Dukes of Portland (Cavendish-Bentick): Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a cross moline Argent (Bentinck); 2nd and 3rd, Sable three stags' heads cabossed Argent attired Or, a crescent for difference (Cavendish).

Pulpit

Angel and
inscription

Lectern

Font

Poor box

Poor box
inscription

Pulpit of timber with carved panelled sides, Norman blind arches with carved capitals, the whole set on a stone plinth. The angel is dated 1931 and is by Alice Meredith Williams, other figures are by Thomas Good. Directly beneath the angel is an inscription on a shield that reads:

THE GIFT OF
VICTORIA
TITCHFIELD
AND MORVEN
A.D.1931

Inscription on the base of the pulpit:

THE BASE OF THIS PULPIT IS MADE OF OAK CROWN AT WELBECK AND USED
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DOME OF ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL A.D. 1695.

Lectern, a stone plinth topped by a fine bronze eagle by Walter Gilbert; a First World War memorial with Second World War names added on the south side.

Font, a smoothed tub, perhaps early medieval, though heavily re-tooled; found nearby. A bronze lid with a figure and attached bowl by William Reid Dick, c.1930.

Poor box by Meredith Williams, dated 1933. With a robed female figure on top, angels at her head; it is made to look like a medieval effigy. The box is inscribed:

In affectionate
remembrance
of Simon +
Lord Lovat
18 Feb 1933

Two carved bench ends frame the whole.

Pews of similar design to the choir stalls, minimal decoration.

Lighting fittings projecting from walls and arcades with curved brackets supporting bulbs.