East Cowick
| East Cowick | |
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| East Cowick shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE663213 |
| • London | 155 mi (249 km) S |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GOOLE |
| Postcode district | DN14 |
| Dialling code | 01405 |
| Police | Humberside |
| Fire | Humberside |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | |
East Cowick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the town of Snaith. It lies on the A1041 road and just north of the M62 motorway.
It forms part of the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick.
The parish church of Holy Trinity was built by Charles Ward of Lincoln between 1853 and 1854, to a design by William Butterfield. The work was commissioned by the William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe, and the west end is thought to be modelled on the church at Lindisfarne (Holy Island) in Northumberland. It is now a Grade II listed building. Dawnay's commission also included the vicarage and the Church of England primary school, together with its schoolhouse, all of which are Grade II listed. Similar clusters of buildings were erected at Hensall and Pollington.
To the west of the village is the late 17th-century Grade I-listed Cowick Hall, the former seat of the Viscounts Downe which is now the headquarters of Croda International. It was built between 1660 and 1690 for Sir John Dawnay, the first Viscount and James Paine altered it for the third Viscount between 1752 and 1760. The fifth Viscount made two further sets of changes in the 1790s and between 1804 and 1811, and the last major alterations were between 1869 and 1880 for Henry and Benjamin Shaw. Recent changes have been more minor. Nikolaus Pevsner, who catalogued the buildings of England, believed that the main fronts of Cowick Hall were among the most accomplished 17th-century country house designs in the land.
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