Historic Churches in Yorkshire

St Helen's Church in the Yorkshire village of Stillingfleet dates to around 1154 and boasts a superb south doorway, beautifully carved with traditional Norman figures. Inside the church is the original door, with ironwork decoration thought to be as old as the 10th century. Look for the 14th-century effigy of a knight in the Moreby Chapel.
B1222, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, England, YO19 6SJ

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Heritage Highlight: Superb 10th-century door

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Stonegrave Minster dates to at least the 8th century and there is Anglo-Saxon stonework in the nave wall. Inside the church is a 10th-century wheelhead cross that once stood in the churchyard. Look for the 15th-century effigies of Robert Thornton and his wife, and the 13th-century grave of Sir John de Stonegrave.
B1257, Stonegrave, Yorkshire, England, YO62 4LJ

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Heritage Highlight: 10th-century wheelhead cross

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St Mary's is a gem of a Victorian church designed by William Burges in the 1870s. Burges created a flamboyant scheme of decoration that is very much 'High Church', with sumptuous marble, stained glass, and gilding throughout.
Ripon, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England, HG4 3DY

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Heritage Highlight: Outstanding Victorian Gothic architecture

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The church of All Hallows stands almost directly opposite the stately home of Sutton Park. The church dates to at least 1185, and its long list of vicars includes Laurence Sterne, famous as the author of Tristam Shandy. Sterne wrote the first two volumes of his opus while living in the village.
Main Street, Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, England, YO61 1DR

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The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen in Ripon was founded in 1115 to care for local lepers and blind priests. The hospital residences are now almshouses, rebuilt in the 19th century, but the 12th-century chapel remains, with its medieval stone altar and 15th-century screen.
Magdalen's Road, Ripon, Yorkshire, England, HG4 1HT

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Heritage Highlight: 12th-century south doorway

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In the Victorian period, the residents of the remote little Yorkshire Wolds village of Thixendale had no church of their own and had to walk three miles to Wharram Percy for services. When Sir Tatton Sykes II decided to build a new church for Thixendale in 1869, he called in well-known architect GE Street.
Thixendale, Yorkshire, England

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All Saints is a 14th-century building incorporating an earlier Norman church, itself built on the site of a 7th-century timber church. Historical highlights include a Norman font, 16th and 17th-century memorial brasses, and the effigy of Lady Beatrice Hastings (d 1320). Look for marks made by Civil War musket balls when Parliamentarian soldiers took refuge in the church.
Church Hill, Thornton-le-Dale, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England, YO18 7QH

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Heritage Highlight: The 14th-century effigy of Lady Beatrice Hastings

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The old church of St John's at Throapham is set in a landscape of housing developments and industry. But some charm remains in this historic building, founded in the late 12th or early 13th century.
St John's Road, Laughton, Throapham, Yorkshire, England, S25 1YL

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Heritage Highlight: 14th century carved coffin lid

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The small 12th-century church of All Saints is located on a slope overlooking this quiet village, in a beautifully peaceful setting. The church is built to a very simple design, with a short west tower, nave, chancel, and narrow aisles.
Church Lane, Thwing, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: Norman font where St John of Bridlington was baptised

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The redundant church of St James in the picturesque village of Warter stands on the site of a medieval church established by a priory of Augustinian canons established here in 1132. Earthwork remains of the monastic buildings can be seen to the east and north of the church.

B1246, Warter, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: Lady Isabel Wilson monument

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