Church Of Saint Ethelburgh

The Church of Saint Ethelburgh is a Grade II* listed building located in Great Givendale, rebuilt in 1849 by W H Dykes using older materials. The church features ashlar stonework and a slate roof, comprising a nave with a twin bellcote and a chancel. The nave includes a pointed two-light window with 19th-century tracery in the Curvilinear style and a pointed double-chamfered south door. Buttresses with offsets indicate the position of the chancel arch.

The chancel contains a 13th-century low-side window with a trefoil head, positioned beneath a trefoil-headed lancet to the west, and to the east, there is a pointed window with Y-tracery under a hood-mould. The pointed east window has three lights with intersecting tracery and is also set under a hood-mould.

Inside, there is a mid-13th-century stoup located to the west of the south door. The chancel arch, dating from the late 12th century, consists of three orders with attached shafts and scalloped capitals decorated with interlaced foliage and human faces, supporting a round arch made of two outer square orders with chevrons and an inner order featuring deep roll-mouldings. The south wall of the chancel has a trefoil-headed sedilium and a trefoil-headed piscina. There are also brass wall memorials: one on the north wall commemorates George Jackson, who died in 1641, while a tablet on the south wall honors Sir Jonathan Atkins (died 1702 at age 99), his son John Atkins (died 1732 at age 79), and his sister Jane Atkins (died 1761 at age 100).