St Wilfrid's Church, Kirby Knowle

St Wilfrid's Church is the parish church of Kirby Knowle, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

A church was built on the site in the 12th century, and was altered in the 13th century.[1] Its chancel was rebuilt in 1815, but in 1848 it was still described as a "small structure".[2] The building was demolished, and a new church was built between 1873 and 1874,[1] to an Early English design by G. Fowler Jones. The church was grade II listed in 1966.[3]

The church is built of stone with a Welsh slate roof. It consists of a nave, a chancel with a north vestry and a southwest tower with a gabled south porch. The tower has two stages, a chamfered plinth, buttresses, slit vents, paired bell openings with impost bands, and a stepped embattled parapet on a dentilled base. The windows in the church are lancets, and the east window has three lancets under quatrefoils. Inside, there are 17th- and 18th-century brass memorials, a broken Mediaeval graveslab and some other Mediaeval stones. The font probably dates from the 17th century.[1][3][4]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Page, William (1923). A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2. London: Victoria County History. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  2. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. London. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b Historic England. "Church of Saint Wilfrid, Kirby Knowle (1190900)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  4. ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.

54°16′44″N 1°16′56″W / 54.27902°N 1.28224°W / 54.27902; -1.28224

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